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Title: Tree Identification Book : A New Method for the Practical Identification and Recognition of Trees
ISBN: 0688050395
Author:
George W. Symonds
Publicate Date: 1973-02-01
Publish: 1973-02-01
List Price: $21.95
Average Customer Rating: 4.0
Format: Paperback
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1: Decent book for starters
Mixed review. For identification of wholly unknown trees it can narrow searches down quickly and give an idea of the family of trees. For a beginner this is an excellent book. However for more experienced tree identifiers, this book is entirely unhelpful for identifying the differences between, for instance, scarlet oak, southern red oak, northern red oak, shumard oak, georgia oak, bear oak, turkey oak, cherrybark oak, pin oak, northern red oak, and black oak. This book would only provide four oaks to choose from in the above list and not give as detailed of a handling of those trees. For a much more detailed handling of tree identification in the Southeast I would recommend Native Trees of the Southeast by Kirkman, Brown and Leopold.
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2: The Tree Identification Book by George W. D. Symonds
Excellent resource book for anyone seeking to identify trees by their leaves, bark, flowers, fruit, twigs, buds or thorns. Even though the photos are in black and white, their 3-dimensional appearance helps very much in identifying a tree.
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3: a picture is worth a thousand words
The photos in this book make it easy to compare what you have in your hand with what's in the book. They are large enough for real comparison, and there is a wide variety of trees described in different ways. It's a useful companion to a more wordy tree encyclopedia.
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4: Great reference book
This is a great book for the novice of tree research. I use it very frequently and find it very accurate.
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5: Shame on Amazon
I wanted to see an excerpt of this book, but when I clicked on "Excerpt" I got a blank page with only the words, "Part I Pictorial Keys." So then I clicked on "Surprise Me!" and got a totally blank page. How are we to decide if this book is what we're looking for if there is no sample to examine?
Shame on you, Amazon.
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