The Trees of Great Britain and Ireland

This well-illustrated seven-volume work (1906–13) covers the varieties, distribution, history and cultivation of tree species in the British Isles.

Henry John Elwes (Author), Augustine Henry (Author)

9781108069335, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 23 January 2014

334 pages, 68 b/w illus. 1 colour illus.
29.7 x 21 x 1.8 cm, 0.8 kg

Although without formal scientific training, Henry John Elwes (1846–1922) devoted his life to natural history. He had studied birds, butterflies and moths, but later turned his attention to collecting and growing plants. Embarking on his most ambitious project in 1903, he recruited the Irish dendrologist Augustine Henry (1857–1930) to collaborate with him on this well-illustrated work. Privately printed in seven volumes between 1906 and 1913, it covers the varieties, distribution, history and cultivation of tree species in the British Isles. The strictly botanical parts were written by Henry, while Elwes drew on his extensive knowledge of native and non-native species to give details of where remarkable examples could be found. Each volume contains photographic plates as well as drawings of leaves and buds to aid identification. The species covered in Volume 2 (1907) include horse chestnut, buckeye, hemlock, walnut and larch.

Thujopsis
Aesculus
Common horse-chestnut
Red horse-chestnut
Indian horse-chestnut
Japanese horse-chestnut
Ohio buckeye
Sweet buckeye
Californian buckeye
Tsuga
Hooker's hemlock
Western hemlock
Hemlock spruce
Carolina hemlock
Himalayan hemlock
Siebold's hemlock
Juglans
Common walnut
Black walnut
Butternut
Texan walnut
Manchurian walnut
Cordate walnut
Narrow-fruited walnut
Siebold's walnut
Common oak
Sessile oak
Pubescent oak
Larix
Common larch
Russian larch
Siberian larch
Kurile larch
Japanese larch
Sikkim larch
Chinese larch
Tamarack
Western larch
Lyall's larch
Herzegovinian pine
Gymnocladus chinensis
Gymnocladus canadensis
Cedrela sinensis
Pterocarya
Pterocarya caucasia
Pterocarya rhoifolia
Pterocarya stenoptera
Cladastris
Yellow-wood
Cladastris amurensis
Cladastris sinensis
Plates.

Subject Areas: Botany & plant sciences [PST]