Trees category: 526 books
How to Prune Trees & Shrubs
Easy Techniques for Timely Trimming. A Storey BASICS® Title
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Help your trees, shrubs, and vines look and yield their best by making the right cut every time. Whether you are hoping for more flowers or fruit, trying to create a dense screen, or struggling to manage out-of-control growth, there is a pruning technique to achieve your goals. Expert gardener Barbara...
Defending Giants
The Redwood Wars and the Transformation of American Environmental Politics
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Giant redwoods are American icons, paragons of grandeur, exceptionalism, and endurance. They are also symbols of conflict and negotiation, remnants of environmental battles over the limits of industrialization, profiteering, and globalization.
Since the middle of the nineteenth century, logging...
City Trees
ID Guide to Urban & Suburban Species
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2011
Covers all the common trees, even nonnative ones that might not be found in other guides.
Grow a Little Fruit Tree
Simple Pruning Techniques for Small-Space, Easy-Harvest Fruit Trees
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2015
Grow your own apples, figs, plums, cherries, pears, apricots, and peaches in even the smallest backyard! Ann Ralph shows you how to cultivate small yet abundant fruit trees using a variety of specialized pruning techniques. With dozens of simple and effective strategies for keeping an ordinary fruit...
Teaching the Trees
Lessons from the Forest
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2010
In this collection of natural-history essays, biologist Joan Maloof embarks on a series of lively, fact-filled expeditions into forests of the eastern United States. Through Maloof’s engaging, conversational style, each essay offers a lesson in stewardship as it explores the interwoven connections...
by Laura Mason
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Since the pine tree is able to sprout after forest fires, on mountainsides, and in semi-desert climes, it is no surprise that the ever-resilient tree signifies longevity, wisdom, and immortality. From the pine cone staffs carried by the worshippers of Bacchus in the classical world to their role in...
by M. C. Rayner, W. Neilson Jones
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
“Problems in Tree Nutrition” is a vintage treatise primarily dealing with mycorrhizal fungus and soil fertility in relation to forestry. The contents of this volume was first published as a series of papers in 'Forestry', the Journal of the Society of Foresters of Great Britain between 1934 and...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2011
Millions of trees live and grow all around us, and we all recognize the vital role they play in the world’s ecosystems. Publicity campaigns exhort us to plant yet more. Yet until recently comparatively little was known about the root causes of the physical changes that attend their growth. Since...
by A. Michael Powell
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
First published by the Big Bend Natural History Association in 1988 as Trees & Shrubs of Trans-Pecos Texas, this book is the only keyed guide to the more than 400 species of woody plants native to the Trans-Pecos region and adjacent areas in eastern New Mexico and northern Mexico. A. Michael Powell has...
Endophytes of Forest Trees
Biology and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2011
Found in every plant species, the diversity of endophytic micro-organisms can be extremely high within different plant organs and tissue types. In trees, their ecological roles with respect to host tree can vary from latent pathogens or saprophytes to neutral commensalists and mutualists. Given their...
Trees of Pennsylvania
and the Northeast
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2002
Common and uncommon tree species described in engaging detail. Covers trees found in small woodlots, deep forests, backyards, and reverting fields.
by Leanne Halling
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
"What doesn’t have a mouth but can talk? What has limbs but can’t move? What has a lot of rings but no fingers?" So begins this fun and informative story that leads to a little known fact about trees. Starting with the oldest living trees on earth to the more down-to-earth ways trees affect our...
by Barbara Webb
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Young readers will discover why trees are so important to a healthy Earth.
The Tree Book
Superior Selections for Landscapes, Streetscapes, and Gardens
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
“A boon to all those who plant, care for, and love trees.”—Nina Bassuk, author of Trees in the Urban Landscape
The Tree Book is the go-to reference to more than 2,400 species and cultivars, from two of the biggest names in horticulture—Michael A. Dirr and Keith S. Warren. The featured...