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Dendrology	Customer Rating:
Overall good book for Dendrology students and Hort. students studying woody plants & trees. However, it is still hard to beat Virginia Tech's Dendrology Web site. (Ref. Id fact sheets) Good luck!

Tom from Arkansas	Customer Rating:
This is a good guide for an amateur like me. The photos are good and the text descriptions have lots of useful tips and information. It's a good addition for anybody's reference library.

good packaging, mediocre content

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I was really excited to get this book. As I read it my opinion gradually declined. While it is a useful book, I have seen much better tree books, such as Michigan Trees (for those who live in the Great Lakes or Northeast). The book only cover the larger trees, for the most part. Many of the photos are of remarkably poor quality, and they tend not to show many good identifying characteristics. The writing seems disorganized, and the text does not go into detail about reliable identifying characteristics. The ranges given are extremely general. Most of all, I was disappointed to find the book containing errors that seem inexcusable in a guide of this type. For example, the section on slippery elm says "Slicing through the bark at a gradual angle will usually expose thin layers of white inner bark divided by the thicker reddish brown bark, as is usually found in the elms." This is totally wrong: the ABSENCE of white layers in the bark is the feature used to tell slippery elm from the other elms. The photo he shows are of American elm bark, as can be clearly seen by the light creamy layers in the bark. How can this guide help people identify trees if the author can't even identify them?

Excellent reference material	Customer Rating:
This book is one of the best I have seen on the subject of identifying trees. The material is laid out very well and is easy to understand. The pictures are great and allows you to identify quickly in winter. I would defiantly recommend this to anyone interested.

Just what I wanted...	Customer Rating:
Great pictures and great descriptions. I wanted to identify the trees on my property and it was very easy using this book. Everyone who guessed about one of my trees was wrong - it was a Tupelo - fancy that!