The Forest Trees of Britain
Volume 1
Part of Cambridge Library Collection - Botany and Horticulture
- Author: Charles Alexander Johns
- Date Published: February 2014
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108069144
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A keen collector and sketcher of plant specimens from an early age, the author, educator and clergyman Charles Alexander Johns (1811–74) gained recognition for his popular books on British plants, trees, birds and countryside walks. Flowers of the Field (1851), one of several works originally published by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, is also reissued in this series. First published by the Society between 1847 and 1849, this two-volume botanical guide for amateur enthusiasts focuses on the trees found in British woodland. Johns describes each species, noting also pests and diseases, uses for the wood, and associated myths and legends. The work is noteworthy for its meticulous engravings of leaves, seeds and blossom, and of the trees in natural settings. Volume 1 (1847) provides an introduction to the botanical terms used. The species covered in this volume include oak, ash, beech and poplar.
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- Date Published: February 2014
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108069144
- length: 452 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 140 x 26 mm
- weight: 0.57kg
- contains: 79 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction
The oak
The ilex
The sycamore
The common or field maple
The ash
The box
The hawthorn
The blackthorn
The cherry
The bird-cherry
The mountain ash
The white-beam
Wild service-tree
The pear
The apple
The beech
The poplar
The white poplar
The grey poplar
The black poplar
The trembling poplar
Foreign poplars.
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