Winter Botany

by William Trelease

Book Overview

Winter Botany is a companion volume to William Trelease's Plant Materials of Decorative Gardening, published in 1918. In this book, Trelease explores the unique characteristics and adaptations of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486218007
• ISBN13: 9780486218007
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 7.7"

Customer Reviews

Identify trees in winter? Impossible, not with this.

A lot of people find it near impossible to ID trees in winter. Ok, some have distinctive bark, or shape, but then there's the whole realm of trees out there that are just near impossible to identify without leaves. This really help work your way through tree taxonomy.

good but older key, coniferous evergreens missing

I'm a gardener at a botanical garden, but I have no formal training in botany, so take my remarks accordingly. I've found this book useful, although the key sequence is longer than the other two keys I use regularly. The book uses line drawings, which for buds & leaf scars actually works pretty well. The keys use quite a bit of plant science terminology- most of it is covered in the glossary at the end of the book. The biggest disappointment for me was the exclusion of coniferous evergreens from the book. On a day to day basis, I used another book "Fruit & Twig Key to Trees & Shrubs" more often, but this one covers more species.