Download or read book Discover American Trees written by Rutherford Hayes Platt and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive pocketbook of descriptions and images, both photographs and illustrations, of trees in North America.
Download or read book American Trees written by Rutherford Hayes Platt and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Encyclopedia of North American Trees written by Sam Benvie and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gardeners and nature-lovers alike will find The Encyclopedia of North American Trees informative and easy-to-use. Descriptions of 278 species, listed alphabetically by their botanical names outline each tree's growing habits, its identifying characteristics, and its place in the environment. This meticulously researched and full color guide is essential for anyone who would like to grow native trees, and for those who want to understand and identify trees in their natural environment. The Encyclopedia of North American Trees includes: Comprehensive introduction to tree genera 350 full color photographs Black & white illustrations of leaf shapes, bark textures, flowers, and mature fruit Illustrations of tree shapes Habitat and growing tips for landscapers and gardeners A tree-hardiness chart and zone map of the United States and Canada Index of common and botanical names, glossary, further reading and sources
Download or read book Encyclopedia of North American Trees written by Sam Benvie and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2002-07-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated guide to North American trees provides information on location, physical characteristics, and foliage.
Download or read book A Natural History of North American Trees written by Donald Culross Peattie and published by Trinity University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-10 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A volume for a lifetime" is how The New Yorker described the first of Donald Culross Peatie's two books about American trees published in the 1950s. In this one-volume edition, modern readers are introduced to one of the best nature writers of the last century. As we read Peattie's eloquent and entertaining accounts of American trees, we catch glimpses of our country's history and past daily life that no textbook could ever illuminate so vividly. Here you'll learn about everything from how a species was discovered to the part it played in our country’s history. Pioneers often stabled an animal in the hollow heart of an old sycamore, and the whole family might live there until they could build a log cabin. The tuliptree, the tallest native hardwood, is easier to work than most softwood trees; Daniel Boone carved a sixty-foot canoe from one tree to carry his family from Kentucky into Spanish territory. In the days before the Revolution, the British and the colonists waged an undeclared war over New England's white pines, which made the best tall masts for fighting ships. It's fascinating to learn about the commercial uses of various woods -- for paper, fine furniture, fence posts, matchsticks, house framing, airplane wings, and dozens of other preplastic uses. But we cannot read this book without the occasional lump in our throats. The American elm was still alive when Peattie wrote, but as we read his account today we can see what caused its demise. Audubon's portrait of a pair of loving passenger pigeons in an American beech is considered by many to be his greatest painting. It certainly touched the poet in Donald Culross Peattie as he depicted the extinction of the passenger pigeon when the beech forest was destroyed. A Natural History of North American Trees gives us a picture of life in America from its earliest days to the middle of the last century. The information is always interesting, though often heartbreaking. While Peattie looks for the better side of man's nature, he reports sorrowfully on the greed and waste that have doomed so much of America's virgin forest.
Download or read book Discover the Trees written by Jerry Cowle and published by Sterling Publishing (NY). This book was released on 1977 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents unusual facts about trees including why some trees are fireproof, which is the noisiest, and which tree most often attracts lightning.
Download or read book A Reunion of Trees written by Stephen A. Spongberg and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stephen Spongberg's vividly written and lavishly illustrated travel story of trees and shrubs tells of intrepid explorers who journeyed to the far corners of the globe and brought back to Europe and North America a wealth of exotic plant species.
Download or read book Trees and Shrubs of the United States written by Elbert Luther Little and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Little Book of North American Trees written by Christin Farley and published by Little Library of Natural Hist. This book was released on 2023-03-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover North America's stately trees from coast to coast! From beeches to bays, willows to walnuts, North America's landscape is adorned with over a thousand species of trees. Now, in the Little Book of North American Trees, part of My Little Library of Natural History, kids can meet some of the continent's most famous varieties! They'll learn interesting details about each tree's leaves, bark, growth, and tips to identify some in the wild. Gorgeous vintage illustrations by some of the world's most enduring nature illustrators accompany each entry along with charts, maps, and other illuminating graphics.
Download or read book Discovering Sierra Trees written by Stephen F. Arno and published by Yosemite Conservancy. This book was released on 1973 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles thirty-six species of trees in the Sierra Nevada including: description, age, size, characteristics, reproduction, and historical highlights.
Download or read book Seeing Trees written by Nancy Ross Hugo and published by Timber Press. This book was released on 2011-08-09 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever looked at a tree? That may sound like a silly question, but there is so much more to notice about a tree than first meets the eye. "Seeing Trees" celebrates seldom-seen but easily observable tree traits and invites you to watch trees with
Download or read book Trees of Pennsylvania written by Charles Fergus and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2002-08-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Common and uncommon tree species described in engaging detail. Covers trees found in small woodlots, deep forests, backyards, and reverting fields.
Download or read book The Forest Trees of North America written by Asa Gray and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the beauty and diversity of the forests of North America through this comprehensive guide to its trees. Featuring detailed descriptions, illustrations, and distribution maps, this book is a valuable resource for anyone interested in trees. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The Norse Discovery of America written by Andrew Fossum and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Enduring Roots written by Gayle Brandow Samuels and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1999-12-01 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trees are the grandest and most beautiful plant creations on earth. From their shade-giving, arching branches and strikingly diverse bark to their complex root systems, trees represent shelter, stability, place, and community as few other living objects can. Enduring Roots tells the stories of historic American trees, including the oak, the apple, the cherry, and the oldest of the world’s trees, the bristlecone pine. These stories speak of our attachment to the land, of our universal and eternal need to leave a legacy, and demonstrate that the landscape is a gift, to be both received and, sometimes, tragically, to be destroyed. Each chapter of this book focuses on a specific tree or group of trees and its relationship to both natural and human history, while exploring themes of community, memory, time, and place. Readers learn that colonial farmers planted marker trees near their homes to commemorate auspicious events like the birth of a child, a marriage, or the building of a house. They discover that Benjamin Franklin’s Newtown Pippin apples were made into a pie aboard Captain Cook’s Endeavour while the ship was sailing between Tahiti and New Zealand. They are told the little-known story of how the Japanese flowering cherry became the official tree of our nation’s capital—a tale spanning many decades and involving an international cast of characters. Taken together, these and many other stories provide us with a new ways to interpret the American landscape. “It is my hope,” the author writes, “that this collection will be seen for what it is, a few trees selected from a great forest, and that readers will explore both—the trees and the forest—and find pieces of their own stories in each.”
Download or read book The Cottonwood Tree written by Kathleen Cain and published by Big Earth Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: And so poet and naturalist Kathleen Cain fell in love with the cottonwood tree. Regarded by many as a nuisance, a "trash tree," the cottonwood not only has a fascinating history, it has served noble purposes as well. Ranging from Vermont to Arizona to Alaska, this native North American tree, in various sizes, shapes, and subspecies, has been a sacred symbol, a shelter providing relief from both heat and cold, a signpost for the lost and weary-and underneath its branches many dreams have been born. In a magical blend of art and science, the author looks not only at the cottonwood-how it grows, how it travels, and what it says-but at the roles it has played and continues to play in the art, health, and history of North America. If you need the science, you will find it here-if you need the human heart, you will find it here as well. "Champion" means winner, defender, something outstanding-a hero. After reading The Cottonwood Tree: An American Champion you will see why this remarkable tree stands so tall in the American landscape. Book jacket.
Download or read book The Discovery of America written by Philip Frederick Alexander and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
