How to Choose Your Tree: A Guide to Parklike Landscaping in Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio - Hardcover

Dwight R. McCurdy (author)|William Greg Spangenberg (author)|Charles Paul Doty (author)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0809305143 ISBN 13: 9780809305148

Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press, 1972

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

Dwight R. McCurdy is Associate Professor of Forestry at Southern Illinois University.

Charles P. Doty is an Assistant Ranger with the Illinois Divi­sion of Parks and Memorials.

William G. Spangenberg is at present serving in the U.S. Army.

Edition details

• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Publication date: 1972
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0809305143
• ISBN 13: 9780809305148
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256