Trees in Canada

By John Laird Farrar and John Laird Farrar PhD MF BSF

Book Overview

Trees in Canada is celebrating its 100th anniversary (1917 to 2017)
with a redesigned reprint that has a modern look. It features a striking new cover and an easier-to-read, engaging content with a new font and standardized photographs many of which bleed.

Two new species were added to the book, bear oak (Quercus ilicifolia (Wangenh.)) and swamp cottonwood (Populus heterophylla L.), and minor taxonomic changes were made.

The standardized photographs, a highlight of the redesigned Trees in Canada, make it easier for users of the book to identify trees, and contribute to a splendid redesign of this widely consulted and cited reference.

Trees in Canada is a guide to the many tree species, both native and introduced, that are found throughout Canada and the northern United States. It evolved from the popular Native Trees of Canada, which for 8 editions and over 75 years provided information on trees in non- technical language and in an easy-to-use format. Trees in Canada includes descriptions of introduced species that are commonly planted or naturalized.

The text has been reviewed by forest science specialists across Canada and in the United States.

A Reader 's Guide shows how the book is organized and explains technical terms.

The author has ingeniously organized the more than 300 tree species into 12 groups based mainly on leaf shape and arrangement along the twig. The features that define the 12 groups require little botanical knowledge to recognize and are easily observed.

An identification key inside the front and back covers comprises an icon (a stylized drawing) for each group, a statement of the group 's essential features, and a numbered thumb tab, which allows rapid entry to the group. Dichotomous keys for the groups and large genera and winter keys for broadleaf trees and deciduous conifers are also provided.

The comprehensive and well-researched text of Trees in Canada is complemented by nearly 600 color photographs and 1600 drawings of features useful for identification of the tree species. Also included are 136 range maps and color maps of Canada 's forest regions and plant hardiness zones.

Trees In Canada is the most comprehensive book on the trees of Canada and the northern United States ever published and is an essential tool for the amateur naturalist and forest science professional, landscape architect, student, or teacher, and a collectible for all those fascinated by trees and forests.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1554554063
• ISBN13: 9781554554065
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: Fitzhenry & Whiteside
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 2.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.8" x 9.8"

Customer Reviews

Trees in Canada

Book is in perfect condition! Shipping was said to be within a couple days, but it took about 2 weeks.

A good identification book

The book covers all the native tree species of Canada except the genus Crataegus (hawthorns, only 10 native species described). Many introduced species are described too. This is not exclusively an identification book: the descriptions include basic information about regeneration and ecology. For most of the species, there are very useful distribution maps, good line drawings of shoot, bud, leaf, fruit and growing habit, and photos of flower, fruit, young bark and mature bark. Unfortunately, there is usually not any leaf photos. Identification keys are not easy to use, because they are at the end of the book. There are also not keys for all the genera. However, the biggest drawback is that many hard-to-identify genera are described very shortly. For example, many of the Salix (willow) species are described in 1/3 page, whereas e.g. Ginkgo (a species very easy to identify) has two pages as have most of the species in the book. For field use the book could be thinner.

A great reference book

I got this book for a first year forestry couse for university and I keep going back to it. Well organized, great pictures including maps of the trees ranges. Also gives information on identification, habitat and reproductive structures. A must have!

Canadian version

This is the same book as "Trees of the Northern United States and Canada" by the same author. As I understand it Canadian books cannot be sold in the US, so this one got a US dust cover and a new ISBN number and became a US book. And a quite attractive one it is too: this is a lot better buy than George W.D. Symonds' "The Tree identification book".