Fascinating, fact-filled reference guide provides the naturally curious as well as veteran botanists with detailed histories of trees, data about age, size and weight; suggestions for identifying trees, and even a selection of poems about these majestic forms of plant life. Over 100 illustrations and... read more
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Fascinating, fact-filled reference guide provides the naturally curious as well as veteran botanists with detailed histories of trees, data about age, size and weight; suggestions for identifying trees, and even a selection of poems about these majestic forms of plant life. Over 100 illustrations and 21 photographs.
Reprint of the Dodd, Mead & Company, New York, 1959 edition.
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