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01958aam a2200385 i 4500 001 74A32A5EBBBE11E38906827BDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20140404010036 008 131031s2013 nyuabf b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2013021309 020 $a 0393078027 (hardcover) 020 $a 9780393078022 (hardcover) 040 $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- $a n-us--- 050 00 $a F861 $b .F37 2013 082 00 $a 634.09794 $2 23 100 1 $a Farmer, Jared, $d 1974- 245 10 $a Trees in paradise : $b a California history / $c Jared Farmer. 250 $a First Edition. 260 $a New York : $b W.W. Norton & Company, $c [2013] 300 $a xl, 552 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates ; $c 24 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Part One. Redwoods : The Value of Longevity -- Twilight of the giants -- The perpetual last stand -- Part Two. Eucalypts : The Taxonomy of Belonging -- Immigration and naturalization -- Natives, aliens, and (bio)diversity -- Part Three. Citruses : The Industry of Growth -- Orange revolution -- Cultural costs -- Part Four. Palms : The Ecology of Style -- Cosmopolitan fronds -- Aesthetic infrastructure -- Epilogue -- Appendix: Common and Scientific Names of Species. 520 $a Describes how the first settlers in California changed the brown landscape there by creating groves, wooded suburbs and landscaped cities through planting eucalypts in the lowlands, citrus colonies in the south and palms in Los Angeles. 651 0 $a California $x History. 650 0 $a Landscape assessment $z California $x History. 650 0 $a Trees $z California $x History. 650 0 $a Horticulture $x History. 650 0 $a Human ecology $x History. 941 $a 3 952 $l GYPE631 $d 20240626014903.0 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20181010012630.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20140404010249.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=74A32A5EBBBE11E38906827BDAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search