- Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: Collins; 2nd ed edition (1988)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0002198576
- ISBN-13: 978-0002198578
- Product Dimensions: 19 x 11.4 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
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- #23 in Books > Science & Nature > Food & Farming > Forestry & Silviculture
- #39 in Books > Science & Nature > Biological Sciences > Botany & Plant Sciences > Reference
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'Still the best.' The Sunday Times '... an invaluable reference for anyone wishing to see magnificent trees ... an essential pocket companion.' The Observer
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‘Still the best.’ The Sunday Times
‘… an invaluable reference for anyone wishing to see magnificent trees … an essential pocket companion.’ The Observer
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26 of 30 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This guide is very difficult to use in the field as
- the colour plates are quite separate from the text,
- these colour plates concentrate on the leaves and never show the bark.
- the shape of the trees is only sometimes covered and then is sometimes to be found in the text and sometimes on the colour plates.
- the sizes of the leaves are only sometimes given but never on the colour plates.
As an example, look up the Hornbeam. The shape is only given for a variant 'Fastigiata' and the leaf size is given only for yet another variant 'Incisa'. Thus the shape and leaf size of the usual Hornbeam is not covered at all.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I have found this book very useful for learning about my local trees. There are some useful keys for identifying for example Southern Beeches, Limes and Cockspur Thorns. However, don't expect keys for all the trees you find as some are difficult for example the Flowering Cherries and Rowans (of which there are many hundreds of varieties).
This is a small book suitable for taking out into the park and therefore you soon end up wanting more. More species, more pictures, more info - more of everything in fact. But that is to the author's credit as by now he has developed your interest in the subject.
As an introduction to trees growing in Britain and found in our streets and parks I can recommend this as an excellent starting point. Despite having been written thirty years ago I can understand why others regard it highly.
This is a small book suitable for taking out into the park and therefore you soon end up wanting more. More species, more pictures, more info - more of everything in fact. But that is to the author's credit as by now he has developed your interest in the subject.
As an introduction to trees growing in Britain and found in our streets and parks I can recommend this as an excellent starting point. Despite having been written thirty years ago I can understand why others regard it highly.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Great little book, originally had it from the library, that good I had to buy it.
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Trees of Britain and Northern Europe
Still waiting to receive book - have send 2 chaser emails but no response - very disappointed with service as the book - apparently - is in stock! Read more
Published on 6 July 2009 by Mr. A. Pain
The one to remeber!
Alan Mitchell died last year, and with him he took an incredible knowledge of what grows where and why. More than that. Read more
Published on 4 Jan 2001
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