"Trees of North America" Vintage Hardcover Nature Book, Heavily Illustrated
$25.00
Vintage hardcover book, The Trees of North America, written by Alan Mitchell and illustrated by David More.
This book is a comprehensive and highly informative guide to native and introduced tree species found across the continent.
It features detailed descriptions and meticulous color illustrations by David More that highlight important visual details like seasonal changes, leaf shape, flowers, seeds, and bark.
The guide covers a wide range of species and includes practical sections on tree identification, planting, and conservation.
Great gift for a gardener, tree hugger, outdoor lover, US National Park, National Forest hiker.
From the inside cover:
In this uncommonly handsome and easy-to-use guide, renowned
authority Alan Mitchell describes the native and introduced species of North American trees. In an accessible family-by-family, species-by-species format, more than 500 species and 250 varieties and cultivars are described and are illustrated in stunning full-color drawings depicting the trees' silhouettes, leaves, flowers, fruits, seeds, bark and seasonal changes.
Also included are two-color maps showing the distributions of various types of trees over North America, along with practical articles on tree selection, planting, and pruning, measuring trees' heights, and estimating their ages.
Authoritative, easy to use, and visually stunning, The Trees of North America is an indispensable guide for the naturalist and gardener and an invaluable reference for the layperson.
Copyright Dragon's World 1987
First published in the United States in 1987 by Facts On File, Inc.,
208 pages, printed in Italy by G. Canale & C. S.p.A. Turin
C O N D I T I O N
Good vintage condition with some tanning along the edges and light
text is clean and illustrations are clean and undamaged. Price clipped.
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