Trees in paradise
Subtitle: a California history
By: Jared Farmer
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 552
ISBN-13: 9780393078022
Subjects: Horticulture; Eucalyptus; Landscape assessment; Palms; Citrus; Coast redwood; Trees; Human ecology; Giant sequoia; History
Description: Describes how the first settlers in California changed the brown landscape there by creating groves, wooded suburbs and landscaped cities through planting eucalypts in the lowlands, citrus colonies in the south and palms in Los Angeles.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part One. Redwoods : The Value of Longevity; title: Twilight of the giants; title: The perpetual last stand; title: Part Two. Eucalypts : The Taxonomy of Belonging; title: Immigration and naturalization; title: Natives, aliens, and (bio)diversity; title: Part Three. Citruses : The Industry of Growth; title: Orange revolution; title: Cultural costs; title: Part Four. Palms : The Ecology of Style; title: Cosmopolitan fronds; title: Aesthetic infrastructure; title: Epilogue; title: Appendix: Common and Scientific Names of Species.