1940 landscape garden forest tree shrub lawn flower ++

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1940 landscape garden forest tree shrub lawn flower ++

1940 LANDSCAPE GARDEN FOREST TREE SHRUB LAWN FLOWER ++
This is a 424 page, 8" x 11", hardcover book titled and subtitled The Home Book of Trees and Shrubs / A Layman s Guide to the Design, Planting, and Care of the Home Grounds, with Information on Lawns, Woodlands, Flower Borders, Garden Accessories, and the Identification of Trees. The book was written by J. J. Levison, M. F. Consulting Landscape Forester; former Lecturer on the Planting and Care of Ornamental and Shade Trees at Yale University Forest School; former Forester to the Department of Parks in New York and Brooklyn. The book was copyrighted by the author in 1940 and published in 1940 by Simon and Schuster. The only copyright date and publication date noted is 1940 and there are no multiple printing dates noted on the copyright page. Though not stated, this is a First Edition and likely a first printing.
As stated in the books foreword written by Samuel J. Record then Dean of the Yale School of Forestry: In every community, there are a few people who seen to know instinctively how to make things grow. Their casual and easy way with plants achieves far more than the laborious but uninspired efforts of their neighbors. The secret of their magic touch resides in their understanding of the fundamentals of plant life, a knowledge gleaned by experience and close observation. They are not slaves to rules, for they sense the principles upon which the rules are based. To such as they, trees and shrubs are sentient beings, each with its peculiar needs for light and food and moisture, each with its own preference for its intimate plant associates, and each with varying powers of resistance to disease and injury. The skilled layman is usually a poor instructor... The trained expert may also be handicapped in imparting his knowledge to laymen... Fortunately there are a few who combine the mastery of their art with skill in its exposition, who can reduce the essentials to simple language that all who will can understand.
Chapter titles and subtitles are:
Planting the Grounds - The Plant Must be of Good Variety ; The Tree or Shrub Must be Suited to the Local Climatic and Soil Conditions ; A Poor Variety is Sometimes Better than Nothing at all in Unfavorable Conditions ; Favor Native and Hardy Plants ; Trees and Shrubs Must Serve a Farsighted Purpose - When is the Best Time to Plant? - What are the Best Sizes to Plant? - What is a Good Tree Root? ; At a Reliable Nursery ; About Collected Plants ; At a Home Nursery ; How to Dig Up the Tree ; Trees Planted with a Ball of Earth ; Pruning before Planting ; The Hole ; Planting the Tree ; Use of Fertilizers in Planting ; Staking, Guying, and Wrapping the Tree ; How far Apart to Plant.
What are the Best Trees and Shrubs to Plant for Different Locations - Deciduous Trees of Large-Growing Kinds ; Deciduous Trees Small-Growing Varieties ; Evergreen Trees Large-Growing Varieties ; Evergreen Trees Small-Growing Varieties ; Plants Specially Valuable for Color ; Plants Suitable for Foundation Planting ; Plants for the City, Including Roof Gardens Deciduous Trees ; Evergreens ; Deciduous Shrubs ; Evergreen Shrubs ; Flowers and Bulbs ; Vines ; Ground Cover ; Trees for Streets and Highways Trees Suitable for City Streets ; Trees Suitable for Suburban Roads ; Trees that will Grow in Districts Most Unfavorable to Vegetation ; Trees and Shrubs for the Wooded Area ; Trees for Parks and Cemeteries ; Trees and Shrubs for Hedges Small Hedges ; Medium-Sized Hedges ; Tall Hedges ; Plants for t6he Seaside Tall-Growing Trees ; Low-Growing Trees ; Shrubs ; Flowers ; Vines ; Plants for Shady Places ; Trees and Shrubs for Dry Places ; Trees and Shrubs for Wet Places ; Ground Covers In Shade or Sun - In Sun Only ; Plants that Furnish Food for Birds - Trees - Shrubs ; Vines Permanent Vines that Cling on their Own Accord - Permanent Vines that have to be Supported - Shrubs with Flexible Branches that can be Trained as Vines - Quick-Growing Vines for Temporary Effect ; Fruit and Berry Bushes ; Plants for the Rock Garden Compact Shrubs - Hardy Perennials.
What Care do my Trees and Shrubs Need? - A Plea for Preventive and Natural Methods in the Care of Trees ; Popular Fallacies ; A Working Program for the Year is Necessary ; How Much Care do my Trees Require? ; Feeding Trees When Trees Should be Fed and with What ; How to Feed Trees with Manure or Compost ; How to Feed trees with Chemical Fertilizers ; Summary.
What Every Tree Needs and How to Tell When These Needs are Wanting - The Stem or Trunk ; The Leaf ; The Root ; What Does the Tree Need? A Tree Needs Moisture ; A Tree Needs Soil What is Good Soil? ; What is Humus? ; What is Peat? ; A Tree Needs Light ; A Tree Needs Heat ; A Tree Needs a Suitable Climate ; A Tree Needs Air ; Conclusions ; How to Tell an Ailing Tree Pallor - Withering - Dry Tips and Buds - Dead Tops - Fungous Growths - Spotted Leaves - Defoliation - Holes in the Bark - Predisposition - General Observations ; How to Trace the Cause of the Ailing Tree - The Cause May be in the Soil Poor Soil - Compact Soil - Filled-in Soil - Insufficiently Drained Soil - The Soil May be too Wet or too Dry - Impediments in the Soil - Illuminating and Foreign Gases in the Soil - Sewage in the Soil - An Excess of Chemical Food ; The Cause May be in the Atmosphere - Sudden and Severe Cold - Ice and Snow - Wind, Lessons from the Recent Hurricane - Excessive Evaporation - Smoke and Sulphur Fumes ; The Cause May be Due to Insects or Disease ; The Cause May be Mechanical Injury ; Summary.
Pruning, Repair, and Protection of Trees and Shrubs - Why we Prune Trees and Shrubs To Keep the Plant Free from Dead. Broken, and Diseased Branches - To Clip the Plant as Part of the Planting Process - To Remove Low Branches - To Control Excessive Growth and Relieve Encroachment - To Clip for Definite Form - To Control the growth of Evergreens by Shearing and Pinching - To Rejuvenate the Plant - To Favor the Growth of Flowers and Fruit ; The Fallacy of Overpruning and the Value of Keeping the Tree Compact ; When to Prune Trees ; How to Prune Trees Fundamental Principles - Topping Off Trees ; How to Cut Down Trees - Hints about Tools and Climbing Trees ; How and When to Prune Shrubs ; Tree Repair Popularity and Limitations - Surface Wounds - When is Cavity Filling Justified? - How to Fill a Cavity - Trees that Tend to Split ; Protection of Trees and Shrubs for the Winter ; Summary.
How to Control Insects and Diseases - How to Control Insects ; How to Choose a Remedy for the Control of Insects ; How to Combat Leaf-Eating Insects Spraying - Collecting Egg Clusters and Cocoons ; How to Combat Sucking Insects ; How to Combat Boring Insects ; How to Control Tree Diseases ; How to Choose a Remedy for the Control of Disease ; Apparatus Used in Spraying for Insects and Diseases ; How to Spray ; Summary.
Common Insect Pests - Leaf-Eating Insects Asiatic Garden Beetle - Bagworm - Brown-Tail Moth - Cankerworms - Elm Leaf Beetle - European Elm Case-bearer - Fall Webworm - Gypsy Moth - Japanese Beetle - Tent Caterpillars - Tussock Moth ; Sucking Insects Chinch Bugs - Cottony Maple Scale - Galls - Golden Oak Scale - Maple Phenacoccus - Oyster-shell Scale - Plant Lice, or Aphids - Red Spiders, or Mites - San Jose Scale - Scurfy Scale - Tulip-tree Scale ; Boring Insects Bronze Birch Borer - Dogwood Bark Borer - Flat-headed Borer - Hickory Bark Borer - Leopard Moth - Linden Borer - Locust Borer - Peach Borer - Sugar-maple Borer - Two-lined Chestnut Borer - White-pine Weevil.
Common Diseases - Black Knot or Plum Wart ; Canker ; Cedar Rust ; Birch Fungus Rot ; Brown-checked Wood Rot ; Chestnut Blight ; Dutch Elm Disease ; Fire Blight ; Leaf Spots ; Phyllosticta Paviae ; Mildews ; Mistletoe ; Phytophthora Crown Rot of Dogwood ; Pine Blister Rust ; Root Rot ; Rusts ; Slime Flux ; Sooty Molds ; Sycamore Leaf Blight ; Wilt ; Witches -brooms ; Yellow Wood Rot.
Trees and Their Enemies - Ailanthus ; Apple ; Arborvitae ; Ash ; Azaleas ; Beech ; Birch ; Boxwood ; Cedar ; Cherry ; Chestnut ; Crab Apple ; Dogwood ; Elm ; Euonymus ; Fir ; Ginkgo ; Hackberry ; Hawthorn ; Hemlock ; Hickory ; Holly ; Horse Chestnut ; Japanese Quince ; Lilac ; Linden ; Locust ; Maple ; Mountain Ash ; Oak ; Peach ; Pear ; Pine ; Poplar ; Rhododendron ; Spruce ; Sycamore ; Tulip Tree ; Walnut ; Willow.
Lawns - Starting a New Lawn Time to Start - Grading and Drainage - Preparation of the Soil and Use of Fertilizer - What Seed to Use - Seeding, Sodding, and Use of Stolons ; Care of the Lawn Rolling - Reseeding - Mowing - Watering - Weeding and Raking - Top-dressing and Fertilizing ; Care of Insects, Disease, and Animal Pests The Japanese and Asiatic Beetles and June Bugs - The Chinch Bug - Ants - Brown Patch - Moles - Mice ; Shall I Renovate the Old Lawn or Make a New One? ; Special Problems Slopes - Woodland Paths - What to Plant between Flagstones and Bricks on Terraces and Walks - Ground Covers where Grass will not Grow ; Summary.
Flower Borders for the Home Owner - Where to Place the Flower Border ; What Types of Flowers are we to Use Perennials - Annuals - Biennials - Bulbs ; How to Secure a Succession of Bloom ; Some of the Best Flowers for the Border - List A Flowers Arranged in Alphabetical Order ; List B Flowers arranged According to Time of Bloom ; List C Flowers Arranged According to Color ; List D Flowers Arranged According to Height ; How to Arrange the Flowers and How to Determine the Number Required ; List E Flowering Shrubs and Small Trees Especially Fitted for a Background to a Flower Bed ; How to Prepare the Bed ; When and How to Plant the Flower Border ; How to Secure the Plants ; How to Care for the Flower Bed ; Herbs ; Naturalizing ; List of Herbs.
Accessories - Garden Furniture ; Garden Shelters ; Fences ; The Outdoor Fireplace ; Clay Tennis Courts ; Birdbaths and Small Pools ; The Swimming Pool ; A Solarium.
A Simple Way of Identifying Trees - Group I - The Pines White Pine ; Pitch Pine ; Scotch Pine / Group II - Trees with Opposite Branching The Horse Chestnut, Ash, and Maple Horse Chestnut ; White Ash ; Sugar Maple ; Silver Maple ; Red Maple ; Norway Maple ; Box Elder / Group III - Trees Told by Their Form Elm, Poplar, Gingko, Willow, and Pin Oak American Elm ; Lombardy, or Italian, Poplar ; Gingko, or Maidenhair Tree ; Weeping Willow ; Pin Oak / Group IV - Trees Told by their Bark or Trunk - Sycamore, Birch, Beech, Blue Beech, and Hackberry Sycamore, or Plane Tree ; Gray, or White, Birch ; American Beech ; Hackberry.
Condition - This is a quality book with a durable binding and text printed on gloss type paper which enhances the many excellent photographic picture illustrations including several that are full page. Scanned images below do not do justice to the pictures you will find in this book. The book is clean and complete and comes with its original dust jacket. The dust jacket includes the original purchase price on the end flap. The DJ is unfaded but is not in good condition with tore away and missing pieces - about one-quarter to one-half inch portions at the top and bottom of the spine edge and also with other small tears and scrapes on the edges. Some small tears in the dust jacket fold areas of the spine edge have been reinforced by small pieces of clear tape on the inner side in an effort to prevent further tearing. The cover binding is square and both cover and pages are tightly bound. The original light beige brown speckled cover cloth with small green tree illustration on the front overlaying light green spine edge cloth with gold spine edge print is somewhat faded on the spine edge. Cover cloth wear includes lightly bumped corners with minor fraying of the cloth at the lower outer back corner tip but no worn through cloth even at that point. There are no markings in the book including no previous owners names. There is one page with an edge tear of about one-half inch inward from the margin. There are no other page tears. There are no missing, loose, creased or marked pages of the text. The dust jacket is as described, the book is in very good condition.