Woodland Gleanings: Being an Account of British Forest-Trees
Explore more books like this:
About This Book
The volume provides a compact natural-history and field guide to Britain's forest and ornamental trees, offering descriptions of thirty-two indigenous and introduced species with botanical characters, histories, cultivation methods, ornamental traits, and assessments of timber value. It intersperses seasonal and phenological observations on leafing and growth, notes on notable specimens, and practical remarks for planting and identification, and is supported by woodcut illustrations showing habit and details of leaves, flowers, and fruit to assist the general reader.
About the Author
You May Also Like
6 picks
A Brief History of Forestry. / In Europe, the United States and Other Countries
by B. E. Fernow
A Distributional Study of the Amphibians of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, México
by William Edward Duellman
A Full Description of the Great Tornado in Chester County, Pa.
by Richard Darlington
A Guide to the Mount's Bay and the Land's End / Comprehending the topography, botany, agriculture, fisheries, antiquities, mining, mineralogy and geology of West Cornwall
by John Ayrton Paris
A History of Epidemic Pestilences / From the Earliest Ages, 1495 Years Before the Birth of our Saviour to 1848: With Researches into Their Nature, Causes, and Prophylaxis
by Edward Bascome
A History of Southern Utah and Its National Parks (Revised)
by Angus M. Woodbury