Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-227) and index.
Contents:
The trees among us -- A charmed life -- Forests old and new -- Stowaway plants -- Apples and age -- The short lives of peach trees -- Foreign invasion -- The plague of the elms -- Unstoppable insects -- Forces of nature and zone pushers -- Loved to death -- The future of the trees.
Summary:
Explains how trees age and the various ways they die, i.e. at the hands of humans or by foreign insects and diseases. Explores the future of trees as well.
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