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Loading... How to Choose Your Tree: A Guide to Parklike Landscaping in Illinois, Indiana, and Ohioby Dwight R. McCurdy
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This guide will prove invaluable to park planners, landscape architects, and home gardeners. Common names as well" "as scientific names are used, and guides for achieving desired effects as well as for identifying tree characteristics can be easily used by the home gardener or amateur botanist. The characteristics of the fifty trees native to the area are given in detailed summaries noting their specific suitability for the various purposes which they may serve. Along with brief general descriptions of tree characteristics, the book contains copious illustrations and tabular summaries and comparisons of shape, size, leaf forms and colors, bark, flowers, fruit, longevity, roots, self-pruning and sprouting potential, shade tolerance, insect and disease susceptibility, site requirements, and soil conditions." No library descriptions found. |
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