Native and Cultivated Conifers of Northeastern North America: A Guide - Hardcover

Cope, Edward A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 080141721X ISBN 13: 9780801417214

Publisher: Comstock Publishing Associates, 1986

Synopsis

This useful manual provides a means for easy identification of the native and cultivated conifers of northeastern North America. The territory covered is roughly eastern Canada and the northeastern fourth of the United States, from Maine south to the southern border of Pennsylvania, west to Kansas, and north to North Dakota. Because it includes so many cultivated species, the book treats the great majority of conifers found in the western United States and Europe as well. Twenty-seven genera and 130 species are included.

About this title

About the Author:

Edward A. Cope is an Extension Botanist at the Bailey Hortorium of Cornell University. He is the author of Native and Cultivated Conifers of Northeastern North America: A Guide, also from Cornell. Walter C. Muenscher, New York State's "Wizard of Weeds," was Professor of botany at Cornell University from 1923 to 1954. Muenscher had special interests in wetlands, poisonous plants, and trees, and was the author of more than 125 articles and several books in addition to Keys to Woody Plants.

Review:

"Although the book is indeed a major expansion and reworking of Muenscher's 1950 version, author Cope made concerted efforts to retain the ease of using the book as originally developed by Muenscher. Muenscher's Keys to Woody Plants serves admirably beginning naturalists, as well as professional botanists. Also recommended for public, academic, and special libraries."

(William Burk, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Biology Library, E-Streams, Vol. 5, No. 8, August 2002)

"This guide is consistently expert and thorough, yet simple enough for an amateur to use. The numerous drawings are exceptionally well executed. Edward Cope has successfully managed both to facilitate the identification of conifers for the botanist or naturalist and to provide valuable information for the landscape architect, nurseryperson, or home gardener."

About this edition

• Publisher: Comstock Publishing Associates
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 080141721X
• ISBN 13: 9780801417214
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224
• Illustrator: King Bente Starcke