A Natural History of Trees of Eastern and Central North America

By Donald Culross Peattie, Paul Landacre (illustrator),

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Gives the economic facts regarding the trees of northeastern North America and identifies a wide variety of species

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A Natural History of Trees of Eastern and Central North America by author and naturalist Donald Culross Peattie is probably the very best book on trees that I have ever read. I used this book (and also his book on Western trees) as a marvelous resource when I was working on my books. 

I learned many a new thing from this book, things I could not find in books written by botanists or horticulturists. This in large part is because Peattie was first and foremost, a naturalist. He tells the reader things that others didn’t bother to mention (for example,…

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