Description

This detailed and comprehensive reference book is essential reading for all those who have a passion for trees, work in tree-related professions or are students of arboriculture, horticulture or forestry. Lavishly illustrated with nearly 300 biological drawings, which are diagramatic in order to clarify and explain important concepts, and colour photographs. Other books in this field have tended to concentrate either on the science of trees, or have specialised on their management, culture or aesthetics. This volume, however, is a comprehensive study that illustrates the relationship between all these subjects.

Besides 5 biologicial chapters dealing with the external features of trees, flower structure, plant cells and tissues, tree growth, and seed structure and germination, there are also chapters on tree identification, the use of trees in the landscape, and on the arboricultural management of trees. Further sections cover tree health, the planting and establishment of trees, woodlands, arboreta, soil science and the establishment of tree root systems, and the strategies trees have adopted for survival, including those utilised by ancient trees.