This annotated version includes annotations that:

- Provide updated information on some crops

- Present-day potential sources for parent trees

- Permaculture guild-planting ideas that pertain to some of the trees mentioned.

The electronic edition of this book has been carefully re-formatted for easy reading.

Author J. Russell Smith (1874-1966) travelled widely and shares his insights and research into agro-forestry, describing how trees such as carob, honey locust, persimmon, mulberry, oaks and pecans can be used to enrich the land and the people and animals dependent on it.