Abstract
MR. NUTTALL'S work is a chatty book about the botany, history, and literature of our common trees. The biological details are fairly accurate, attention being paid to the pollination of the flower, the distribution of the seed, and the growth of the seedling. Errors, however, are not infrequent in the other part of the text, mainly due to previous writers, from whom the author has compiled. The remarkable hazel tree, 60 feet high, at Syon House, Brentford, is not the common species (as stated on p. 5, an error due to Tollemache in 1901); but is Corylus Colurna, the Turkish hazel, a large forest tree of S.E. Europe and Asia Minor. There are actually three magnificent Turkish hazels at Syon, ranging in height from 68 to 87 feet.
Trees and How they Grow.
By G. Clarke Nuttall. New edition. Pp. xi + 184 + 70 plates. (London, New York, Toronto and Melbourne: Cassell and Co., Ltd., 1923.) 7s. 6d. net.
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Trees and How they Grow . Nature 115, 564 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/115564a0
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