More Tree Information
Books on Praising and Raising Trees
- Natural History and Lore
- Encyclopedias
- Selecting and Landscaping with Ornamental Trees
- Identification and Field Guides
- Close-Ups and Care
- Local Trees
- Maples (For Example)
Websites
- The USDA's site (the top site for native and introduced North American plants): http://plants.usda.gov/
- New York Metropolitan Flora Project: http://www.bbg.org/sci/nymf/index.html
- American Forests site (includes big and historic tree registers): http://www.americanforests.org/
- Selecting a tree to plant:
- University of Connecticut's Dr. Mark H. Brand's database of trees, shrubs, and vines. Select by traits and listen to pronunciation: http://www.hort.uconn.edu/plants/
- For the West Coast, Urban Forest Ecosystems Institute at California Polytechnic State University: http://selectree.calpoly.edu/
- Using a leaf and twig key to identify a tree:
ID It website - International Society of Arboriculture: http://www.isa-arbor.com/home.asp
- Find a certified arborist in a local chapter of the ISA: ISA website
- The National Arbor Day Foundation: http://www.arborday.org/
- "Trees Are Good" (general information on tree care): http://www.treesaregood.com/
- Tree guerillas: http://www.plantamnesty.org/
- New York ReLeaf: http://www.dec.ny.gov/lands/5307.html
- Trees New York: http://www.treesny.com/
- How to get trees planted in NYC: http://www.treesny.com/trees_howto.htm
- Request a Street Tree online: NYC Parks website
Inside Trees Exhibit
As part of Big City, Big Trees, the Gardener's Reource Center offers a rare opportunity to view treasures from the BBG Library collections.
Eighteen of the featured trees are represented in The American Woods: Exhibited by Actual Specimens and with Copious Explanatory Text, by Romeyn B. Hough. Published in parts from 1888 to 1928, this remarkable work provides a unique look beyond the bark of 350 North American trees. Thin traverse, radial, and tangential sections of each tree are mounted on cards and arranged geographically in 14 volumes.
The exhibit will also feature hand-colored engravings of sections of 24 woods from Flora Rossica (1785).
"Inside Trees" will be on display in the Rotunda of the Administration Building, just outside the Gardener's Resource Center. The GRC is open Tuesday through Friday, 10:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. and 1:30 p.m.–4:30 p.m. and Saturday, 1:30 p.m.–4:30 p.m.
Parrotia persica
The tulip tree (Liriodendron tulipifera) as shown in Hough's The American Woods: Exhibited by Actual Specimens and with Copious Explanatory Text in the GRC's Inside Trees exhibit.
