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THE appearance of a book that aims at supplying the means of identification of trees and shrubs that occur in Britain?wild or cultivated out of doors? should meet with a wide appeal. It is true that the indigenous woody species, which number only a few dozen, may be readily named from existing floras and handbooks, and that there are excellent works describing the legion of trees and shrubs now in cultivation; nevertheless, so far, there has been no attempt to provide a general key or other ready means of identification of the cultivated species, and the present work is a pioneer in this respect.
The Identification of Trees and Shrubs:
how to name without previous Knowledge of Botany any Wild or Garden Tree or Shrub likely to be met with in the British Isles. By F. K. Makins. Pp. vii + 326. (London: J. M. Dent and Sons, Ltd., 1936.) 15s. net.
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The Identification of Trees and Shrubs. Nature 138, 348 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138348b0
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