Illinois trees : an identification and activity book.

This activity book is designed to supplement the information provided in the Illinois Trees poster from the Illinois Department of Natural Resources (IDNR). When using this book, students will become familiar with identification characteristics of leaves (page 2) and will be able to identify tree species by using a dichotomous key to these leaves (page 5). Students will also become familiar with traits of the tree species and key vocabulary words.

Illinois-grown Christmas trees, 1987.

Cover title.

Our reclamation future : the missing bet on trees /

"Project no. 80.057."

Selecting & planting trees /

"Report was supported in part, by a grant from the Governor's Office, Office of Planning."

A treatise on the theory and practice of landscape gardening : adapted to North America, with a view to the improvement of country residences ; comprising historical notices and general principles of the art, directions for laying out gardens and arranging plantations, the description and cultivation of hardy trees, decorative accompaniments to the house and grounds, the formation of pieces of artificial water, flower gardens, etc. ; with remarks on rural architecture /

Signatures: [A][superscript 4] B[superscript 4](-B4), 2-62[superscript 4] 63[superscript 2](-632); 16 leaves of plates.

The new American orchardist; or, An account of the most valuable varieties of fruit, adapted to cultivation in the climate of the United States, from the latitude of 25 [degrees] to 54 [degrees], with their uses, modes of culture, and management; remedies for the maladies to which they are subject, from noxious insects, and other causes, &c. Also, a brief description of the most ornamental forest trees, shrubs, flowers, &c.

Mode of access: Internet.

Husbandry spiritualized : or, The heavenly use of earthly things, in which husbandmen are directed to an excellent improvement of their common employments. Whereunto are added, occasional meditations upon birds, beasts, trees, flowers, etc. Also, The touchstone of sincerity; and, Extracts from A token for mourners. /

Starr & Niles, print.

The North American sylva, or, A description of the forest trees, of the United States, Canada and Nova Scotia : considered particularly with respect to their use in the arts and their introduction into commerce; to which is added a description of the most useful of the European forest trees /

Paged continuously by volumes: v. 1, 136 p.; v. 1a, 137-268.; v. 2, 116 [1] p.; v. 2a, 117-250 p.; v. 3, 82 [1] p.; v. 3a, 83-194 [1] p.; v. 3b, 195-286 p.

Peter Parley's cyclopedia of botany, including familiar descriptions of trees, shrubs, and plants;

Mode of access: Internet.

The construction of timber, from its early growth; explained by the microscope, and proved from experiments, in a great variety of kinds: in five books. On the parts of trees; their vessels; and their encrease by growth: and on the different disposition of those parts in various kinds; and the particularities in their vessels. With figures of their various appearances; of the instrument for cutting them; and of the microscope thro' which they were viewed.

Mode of access: Internet.

A proposal for improving and adorning the island of Great Britain; for the maintenance of our navy and shipping, etc., by parochial plantations of timber and other trees, upon the forests, chaces, commons, and waste grounds throughout the kingdom.

Mode of access: Internet.

Catalogue of fruit and ornamental trees and plants, bulbous flower roots, green-house plants, &c. &c., cultivated at the Linnaean Botanic Garden, William Prince, Proprietor, Flushing, Long Island, near New York. To which is added a short treatise on their cultivation, &c.

Mode of access: Internet.

The planter's guide; or, A practical essay on the best method of giving immediate effect to wood, by the removal of large trees and underwood; being an attempt to place the art, and that of geneneral arboriculture, on fixed and phytological principles; interspersed with observations on general planting, and the improvement of real landscape. Originally intended for the climate of Scotland.

Mode of access: Internet.

Bristol nursery. A catalogue of forest trees, evergreen and flowering shrubs, fruit trees, herbaceous, green-house, and hot-house plants.

Mode of access: Internet.

Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum; or, The trees and shrubs of Britain, native and foreign, hardy and half-hardy, pictorially and botanically delineated, and scientifically and popularly described; with their propagation, culture, management, and uses in the arts, in useful and ornamental plantations, and in landscape-gardening; preceded by a historical and geographical outline of the trees and shrubs of temperate climates throughout the world,

"List of books referred to..." v. 1, p. cxc-ccxxvi.