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Arboriculture: Integrated Management of Landscape Trees, Shrubs, and Vines (4th Edition)
Richard W. Harris, James R. Clark, ...
Prentice Hall, 2003
The Book
Harris wrote the first edition of this book when trees were "trimmed" by the same people who patched asphalt and repaired park benches. It was a breath of rationality in a field that relied mostly on anecdotal information. The new edition reinforces this work as ...
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Tricks with Trees: Growing, Manipulating and Pruning
Ivan Hicks, Richard Rosenfeld
Pavilion, 2007
Trees are an underappreciated and underused aspect of the garden; their "bendy" form means they can be manipulated and pruned into fantastic shapes, which can transform a garden from ordinary to entirely unique. This guide shows how trees and shrubs can be turned into practical and fun towers for children to play in; bent over as pliable saplings ...
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Tree Crops: A Permanent Agriculture (Conservation Classics)
John Smith
Island Press, 1987
A Visionary; A Vision and a Timeless Prescription
J. Russel Smith's book changed my life. It set me on a course to become an authority on solving world hunger on a local level and I have traveled to the third world with Smith's advice clearly in mind. This is not an easy read, and the photographs are black and ...
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Taylor's Guide to Trees: The Definitive, Easy-to-use Guide to 200 of the Garden's Most Important Plants ...
Susan A. Roth
Houghton Mifflin, 2001
NOT a key for ID use.
"Definitive"----???? NO WAY! This book has nice pictures but in no way is it good for identifying trees. There are many better ID books out there. Keep looking if you need an easy to use ID key.
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Manual of Woody Landscape Plants : Their Identification, Ornamental Characteristics, Culture, Propagation and ...
Michael A. Dirr
Stipes Publishing, 1998
The Bible
Michael Dirr is the guy you go to to identify and even diagnose woody plants. No color plates but fine line drawings. Anecdotal in nature sometimes, and with sharp delineation of properties of each tree or shrub. He has this book also broken up in two different ...
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Christmas Trees for Pleasure and Profit
Rutgers University Press, 1956
Must have!
This book covers everything for prospective Christmas Tree Farm owners from how to know which land is best for your trees to marketing and selling your trees. It is definialy a must have for those with an interest in owning a Christmas tree farm. The author wrote the ...
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Taylor's Guide to Shrubs: How to Select and Grow More than 500 Ornamental and Useful Shrubs for Privacy, ...
Kathleen Fisher
Houghton Mifflin, 2001
Taylor's Guide to Shrubs
I purchased my first Taylor's Guide 20 years ago. I have since purchased most in the series after realizing I always always reach for Taylor's Guides first, before any of my other gardening books. We have homes in 3 different hardiness zones-3,6 and 9. Taylor's is ...
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Trees and Shrubs of Virginia
Oscar W. Gupton, Fred C. Swope
University Press of Virginia, 2002
Excellent photography
This book helps to easily identify the various species of trees and shrubs that occur in the Virginia area. The descriptions are short, to the point and easily understood. Any one can enjoy this book and it is small enough to take on nature walks with the kids, or ...
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Wonders of the Winter Landscape: Shrubs and Trees to Brighten the Cold-Weather Garden
Vincent A. Simeone
Ball Publishing, 2005
Winter wonders
A truly original gardening book, and very helpful to people like me, living where the garden must be expected to be more white than green for at least 5 months every winter.
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Insects That Feed on Trees and Shrubs (Comstock Book)
Warren T. Johnson, Howard H. Lyon
Cornell University Press, 1991
This is a much needed and fabulous manual.
When trying to identify a particular problem with growing trees or shrubs knowing what kinds of insects are possible culprits is a major step. This book gives us, in color photos and descriptions, most of the common larvae that can be found feeding on the particular ...
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Manual of Cultivated Broad-Leaved Trees and Shrubs: A-D
Michael Epp
Timber Press, Incorporated, 1985
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Palms Throughout the World
David L. Jones
Smithsonian, 1995
Very Pleased
I use this wonderful book on a regular basis for identifing species on catalog lists. I consider this one of my primary palm books. Great for the novice or nurseryman. Easy to read. I would love to see more cultural information in the next edition. However, I ...
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Japanese Maples
J. D. Vertrees
Timber Press, Incorporated, 1987
Japanese Maples
THE reference book on Japanese maples. Excellent information and pictures. Very usual for my purposes in selecting trees to fit my property and conditions.
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Ornamental Palm Horticulture
TIMOTHY K. BROSCHAT, ALAN W. MEEROW
University Press of Florida, 2000
Correcting misunderstandings about this book
The authors clearly had no intention in writing yet another book filled with photos of palm species that would instruct readers on what palms to plant. There are already many books that provide the service that two of these reviewers ask for ("Betrock's Landscape ...
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Pruning Simplified
Lewis Hill
Storey Publishing, LLC, 1986
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