Trees in paradise : a California history / Jared Farmer.

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Edition:First Edition.
Published: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2013]
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245 1 0 |a Trees in paradise :  |b a California history /  |c Jared Farmer. 
250 |a First Edition. 
264 1 |a New York :  |b W.W. Norton & Company,  |c [2013] 
300 |a xl, 552 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates ;  |c 24 cm 
336 |a text  |2 rdacontent 
337 |a unmediated  |2 rdamedia 
338 |a volume  |2 rdacarrier 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
520 |a 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 
505 0 |a Part One. Redwoods : The Value of Longevity -- Twilight of the giants -- The perpetual last stand -- Part Two. Eucalypts : The Taxonomy of Belonging -- Immigration and naturalization -- Natives, aliens, and (bio)diversity -- Part Three. Citruses : The Industry of Growth -- Orange revolution -- Cultural costs -- Part Four. Palms : The Ecology of Style -- Cosmopolitan fronds -- Aesthetic infrastructure -- Epilogue -- Appendix: Common and Scientific Names of Species. 
651 0 |a California  |x History. 
650 0 |a Landscape assessment  |z California  |x History. 
650 0 |a Trees  |z California  |x History. 
650 0 |a Giant sequoia  |z California  |x History. 
650 0 |a Coast redwood  |z California  |x History. 
650 0 |a Eucalyptus  |z California  |x History. 
650 0 |a Citrus  |z California  |x History. 
650 0 |a Palms  |z California  |x History. 
650 0 |a Horticulture  |z United States  |x History. 
650 0 |a Human ecology  |z United States  |x History. 
991 |a 2014-01-15 
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