Field Guide to Trees & Shrubs Petrides, George A. Petrides Peterson

468 Pages·1958·56.792 MB·English

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George A. Petrides, a veteran field naturalist, is
Professor of Fisheries and Wildlife at Michigan
State University in East Lansing. He received a
Special Award from the federated Garden Clubs
of Michigan in recognition of this Field Guide to
Trees and Shrubs.
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A Field Guide
to Trees and Shrubs
THE PETERSON FIELD GUIDE SERIES ®
Edited by Roger Tory Peterson
1. Birds (eastern) - R . T. Peterson
lA. Bird Songs (eastern) - Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology
2. Western Birds - R. T. Peterson
2A. Western Bird Songs - Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology
3. Shells of the Atlantic and Gulf Coas ts, W. Indies -Abbott & Morris
4. Butterflies (eastern) - Opler & Malikul
5. Mammals -Burt & Grossenheider
6. Pacific Coast Shells (including Hawaii)- Morris
7. Rocks and Minerals - Pough
8. Birds of Britain and Europe - Peterson, Mountfort, & Hollom
9. Animal Tracks - Murie
10. Ferns (ne. and cen. N. America)- Cobb
11. Eastern Trees - Petrides
llA. Trees and Shrubs -Petrides
12. Reptiles and Amphibians (e. and ceo . N. America)- Conant & Collins
13. Birds ofTexas and Adjacent States - R.T. Peterson
14. Rocky Mt.. Wildflowe rs - Craighead, Craighead, & Dauis
15. Stars and Planets - Pasachoff & Menzel
16. Western Reptiles and Amphibians - Stebbins
17. Wildflowers (ne. and n .-cen. N. America) - R.T. Peterson & McKenney
18. Birds of the West Indies - Bond
19. Insects (America north of Mexico) - Borror & White
20. Mexican Birds - R. T. Peterson & Chalif
21. Birds' Nests (east of Mississippi River) - Harrison
22. Pacific States Wildflowers- N iehaus & Ripper
23. Edible Wild Plants (e. and ceo . N. America)- L . Peterson
24. Atlantic Seashore - Gasner
25. Wes tern Birds' Nests - Harrison
26. Atmosphere -Schaefer & Day
27. Coral Reefs (Caribbean and Florida)- Kaplan
28. Pacific Coast Fishes - E schmeyer, Herald, & Hammann
29. Beetles - White
30. Moths - Covell
31. Southwestern and Texas Wildflowers - Niehaus, Ripper, & Savage
32. Atlantic Coast Fishes - R obins, Ray, & Douglass
33. Western Butterflies- Tild-en & Smith
34. Mushrooms- McKnight & McKnight
35. Hawks - Clark & Wheeler
36. Southeastern and Caribbean Seashores- Kaplan
37. Ecology ofEastero Forests- Kricher & Morrison
38. Birding by Ear: Eastern and Central - Walton & Lawson
39. Advanced Birding- Kaufman
40. Medicinal Plants - Foster & Duke
41. Birding by Ear: Western - Walton & Lawson
42. Freshwater Fishes (N. America north of Mexico) -Page & Burr
43. Backyard Bird Song - Walton & Lawson
44. Western Trees -Petrides
46. Venomous Animals and Poisonous Plants-Foster & Caras
47. More Birding by Ear: Eastern and Central- Walton & Lawson
48. Geology - R oberts & Hodsdon
49. Warblers- Dunn & Garrett
50. California and Pacific Northwest Forests- Kricher & Morrison
51. Rocky Mountain and Southwest Forests - Kricher & Mon'ison.,
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THE PETERSON FIELD GUIDE SERIES
®
A Field Guide to
Northeastern and north-central
United States and
southeastern and
south-central Canada
George A. Petrides
I llustrations by
George A. Petrides
(leaf and twig plates)
Roger Tory Peterson
(flowers, fruits, silhouettes)
Second Edition
Sponsored by the National A udubon Society,
the National Wildlife Federation,
and the R oger Tory Peterson I nstitute
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Copyright«:> 1958 by George A. Petrides
Copyright@ renewed 1986 by George A. Petrides
and Roger 'Ibry Peter son
Copyright© 1972 by George A Petrides
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Editor's Note
A Field Guide to the Birds, the first book in the Peter on Field
Guide Serie , was published in 1934 and the principle on which
it was founded - a chematic approach pointing out the visual
or field differences between species - proved a sound one.
Checklist or phylogenetic order was often subordinated to an
artificial but more practical arrangement of the figures on the
plates. For example, the chimney swift was placed with the
swallows and the Philadelphia vireo and ruby-crowned kinglet
were compared with the confusing fall warbler .
It was inevitable that a field guide to trees, shrubs, and woody
vines should follow. In fact, as far back as 1941 I had planned
to do such a book and had actually started on it when I learned
that George Pe trides was deep in the identical project. Upon
examining his work I concluded that his version adhered to the
basic principles of the Field Guide system even more than mine,
so I turned to other projects, offering him bits of supplementary
material - tree silhouettes, drawings of fruits and Bowers, etc. -
that would have gone into my own book. He had based his
approach mostly on leaf, twig, and bud characters.
Dr. Petrides, a veteran field naturalist with a record of teaching
and research, fir t in the ational Park Service and U.S. WiJdHfe
Service and now at Michigan State University, had long felt the
need of approach to plant recognition that his tudents in
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ecology and game management would underst and. It is well
enough to be tutored in basic plant taxonomy, but more often than
not the student even after considerable training is still confu ed
when confronted by many problems of identification.
This Field Gttide in a sense is a pictorial key using obvious
similarities and differences of form and structure by which the
beginner can quickly run down his tree, shrub, or vine. True, some
botanists may raise their eyebrows because the plants are not in
the traditional order of their relationship , but there are many
formal botanies so arranged; it would have been pointless to
produce anothel". This guide is a shortcut. Actually the student
will learn the relation hips too (even if indirectly), for a key in
the appendixes makes these quite clear.
The leaf and twig plates are the ingenious and painstaking
labor of Dr. Petrides, while the other figure (silhouettes, draw-
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ing on legend pages, e tc.) are mine. To D evereux Butcher I
express thanks for his offer of the use of his photographs of trees,
several of which were used as reference material in the silhouette
section. I only wish that shortage of space had not prohibited a
irnilar section of drawings of the bark of trees. Had this been
included some of the keys would have had to go. These, particu
larly the winter keys, were deemed indi pensable to the usefulness
of the book.
This, the fir t extensive revi ion in fourteen year , brings numer
ous refinement to a Field Guide that has already been used by
more than 250,000 sh1dents, botanists, and amateur naturalists.
The plates have been reorganized o as to bear a more convenient
relation to the updated text, facilita ting quick reference.
In the ecology-oriented years ahead, use this handy b ook to
inform yourself about the green mantle of plants that clothe our
(<small blue planet,·· the only home we've got.
RocER ToRY oN
PETER
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