A Natural History of Trees of Eastern and Central North America

Good used hardcover. No dust jacket. Age toned pages. Blue-green cloth a bit faded, and starting to fray at outer extremities (particularly top of spine.)

Text by Donald Culross Peattie. Illustrations by Paul Landacre.

Wherever you live, wherever you tramp or travel, the trees of our country are wondrously companionable, if you have a speaking acquaintance with them. When you have learned their names, they say them back to you, as you encounter them -- and very much more, for they speak of your own past experience among them, and of our nation's forest life... A name is only a door open to knowledge; beyond lie the green ways of growing and, too, all that makes a tree most interesting and important. To tell a little of these things is the main purpose of this book.