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Author
Publisher
Permanent Publications
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Are you wondering which productive trees to plant in your garden? Or are you planning a forest garden? Perhaps you are planting an orchard but want a greater diversity of useful trees than is typical? Or you d like to know what unusual fruit trees you can use? The answers to all these questions can be found in master forest gardener Martin Crawford s new book. Crawford has researched and experimented with tree crops for twenty-five years and has selected...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Humans have always revered long-lived trees. But as historian Jared Farmer reveals in Elderflora, our veneration took a modern turn in the eighteenth century, when naturalists embarked on a quest to locate and precisely date the oldest living things on earth. The new science of tree time prompted travelers to visit ancient specimens and conservationists to protect sacred groves. Exploitation accompanied sanctification, as old-growth forests succumbed...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 560L
Language
English
Description
Uses text and oil paintings of a solitary tree during the different seasons and the rising and setting of the sun to challenge readers on the relationship between art and science.
28) Someday a tree
Author
Pub. Date
[1993]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
570L
Language
English
Description
A young girl, her parents, and their neighbors try to save an old oak tree that has been poisoned by pollution.
29) The tree identification book: a new method for the practical identification and recognition of trees
Author
Publisher
M. Barrows
Pub. Date
[1958]
Language
English
31) Maple trees
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
510L
Language
English
Description
This introductory book discusses leaves, sap, and the different kinds of maple trees.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
Description
"The Secret Life of Trees is a beautifully designed reader all about things you may not know about trees! Use your reading superpowers to learn all about trees - the oldest, the tallest, how they grow and are used by animals and people alike."
37) Tree flowers
Author
Publisher
W. Morrow
Pub. Date
1984.
Language
English
Description
Text and drawings follow the growth cycle of twelve common flowering trees: pussywillow, white oak, sugar maple, elm, apple, horse chestnut, flowering dogwood, magnolia, witch hazel, black walnut, black locust, and tulip tree.
38) Winter trees
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young boy and his dog walk through the forest in the snow and notice the many diferent types of trees, which, although they have shed their leaves, can still be identified by their shape.
39) Trees
Author
Series
Publisher
Exeter Books
Pub. Date
1983.
Language
English
Description
Examines different types of forests and looks at the evolution, characteristics, life cycles, structure, growth, and economic and commercial uses of trees
40) Trees
Author
Publisher
Smithsonian Institution Press in association with the Natural History Museum, London
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English