Trees in Canada

by John Laird Farrar and John Laird Farrar PhD MF BSF

Book Overview

Trees in Canada celebrated its 100th anniversary (1917 to 2017) with a redesigned reprint that has a modern look. It features a striking new cover and an easier-to-read, engaging content with a new... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1550411993
• ISBN13: 9781550411997
• Release Date: September 1995
• Publisher: Fitzhenry & Whiteside Ltd
• Length: 502 Pages
• Weight: 2.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 1.5" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

Trees in Canada

Book is in perfect condition! Shipping was said to be within a couple days, but it took about 2 weeks.

A good identification book

The book covers all the native tree species of Canada except the genus Crataegus (hawthorns, only 10 native species described). Many introduced species are described too. This is not exclusively an identification book: the descriptions include basic information about regeneration and ecology. For most of the species, there are very useful distribution maps, good line drawings of shoot, bud, leaf, fruit and growing habit, and photos of flower, fruit, young bark and mature bark. Unfortunately, there is usually not any leaf photos. Identification keys are not easy to use, because they are at the end of the book. There are also not keys for all the genera. However, the biggest drawback is that many hard-to-identify genera are described very shortly. For example, many of the Salix (willow) species are described in 1/3 page, whereas e.g. Ginkgo (a species very easy to identify) has two pages as have most of the species in the book. For field use the book could be thinner.

A great reference book

I got this book for a first year forestry couse for university and I keep going back to it. Well organized, great pictures including maps of the trees ranges. Also gives information on identification, habitat and reproductive structures. A must have!

Canadian version

This is the same book as "Trees of the Northern United States and Canada" by the same author. As I understand it Canadian books cannot be sold in the US, so this one got a US dust cover and a new ISBN number and became a US book. And a quite attractive one it is too: this is a lot better buy than George W.D. Symonds' "The Tree identification book".