The Tree Key: A Guide to Identification in Garden, Field, and Forest : 77 Genera Including 235 Species

by Herbert L. Edlin

Text and illustrations describe the important features of the trees commonly found throughout Western Europe and the temperate-climate regions of North America

Genres: Reference

Paperback

First published September 5, 1978

About the author

Herbert Edlin was an English forester. Born in 1913, he attended Manchester Grammar School, then studied forestry at Edinburgh and Oxford Universities. After managing rubber plantations in Malaysia, he spent five years in the New Forest of Hampshire, planning timber harvesting, raising young trees, and replanting cleared land. After 1945 he edited technical publications for the Forestry Commission, compiled guides to forest parks in Scotland and Wales, and made first-hand studies of woodland crafts. Widely travelled, he was the author of twenty-seven books on outdoor subjects.

Reviews

[Christopherch · Rating 5 out of 5]

An excellent pocket guide for tree identification - well written often wry commentary.