Trees Of Ontario Including Tall Shrubs

TREES OF ONTARIO is a comprehensive guide to all native and naturalized trees and tall shrubs in the province. Includes 213 species from 31 families: * Notes of interest on edible fruits and on human and wildlife use of the trees * 574 colour photos and illustrations show each tree's bark, leaves, flowers, fruits or cones, and overall shape * Identification is easy with tips for distinguishing similar species * Range maps and habitat descriptions * Illustrated keys based on leaf, flower, fruit and winter characteristics * Name origins and French names * Illustrated glossary. * Keep this handy book in your backpack for easy reference on hikes and walks, or put it on your cottage bookshelf.

Excerpt from Sylvan Ontario: A Guide to Our Native Trees and Shrubs IN the very numerous forms of life with which we meet we cannot help noticing that there are all degrees of likeness and difference. We believe that all these forms are in some sense related to each other, and the closer the similarity the closer we consider this relation to be. When such likeness is as exact as we are accustomed to find in Nature, we say that the forms compared are of the. Same kind or Species, and we mark them by the same name, noticing that the individuals reproduced from these continue equally similar to each other and to the parent forms. A number of species plainly related to each other, yet not the same, form a Genus, the plural of this 'latin word being Genera. Thus all our Maples belong to one Genus, though there are five or six species and we have at least a dozen distinct kinds of Willows, all belonging to the same group or Genus in the same way. Similar Genera again are grouped into Families, or Orders, and these again into higher and higher classes, upon which at present we need not dwell. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

A comprehensive guide to all native and naturalized trees and tall shrubs in the state. It includes notes of interest on edible fruits and on human and wildlife use of the trees. Over 500 color photographs and illustrations show each tree's bark, leaves, flowers, fruits or cones, and overall shape. Identification is easy with tips for distinguishing similar species. The book also features range maps and habitat descriptions, illustrated keys based on leaf, flower, fruit and winter characteristiscs, also features the origins of names, as well as an illustrated glossary.

This guide focuses on 152 of the most common forest plants found in north-western Ontario, organized into six main categories according to common growth form or habit: trees, shrubs, herbs, graminoids, ferns and fern-allies, and bryophytes and lichens. Provides line drawings to aid in identification; descriptions of general appearance, leaves, flowers, fruit, and habitat; and notes regarding such matters as differences with similar species and traditional uses of the plants, as applicable. An additional 61 species are noted briefly. Includes glossary and index.