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Trees of Yosemite (1932, 1948) by Mary Curry Tresidder

BIBLIOGRAPHY

The student of our trees will find three books on the subject particularly valuable: Hall’s Yosemite Flora, Jepson’s Trees of California, and Sudworth’s Forest Trees of the Pacific Slope.

The Yosemite Flora is the handbook of plants commonly in use for this region. As its material is limited to the Yosemite National Park, it is particularly helpful here. Its descriptions are brief and to the point, and it contains a very useful introduction to plant study in general and to the Yosemite flora in particular, with an explanation of many of the technical terms used in botanical works.

The Trees of California, is naturally more detailed in its study of trees. The articles on the genus Sequoia, the general information on forest conditions in California, and the stories of many of the common and specific names of our trees are most illuminating. If possible, the student of trees should also look into Jepson’s Silva of California, the monumental work on the subject, with its splendid illustrations. In our day, no book on California trees can appear without an acknowledgment of indebtedness to Professor Jepson, which is given herewith.

Sudworth’s Forest Trees of the Pacific Slope includes a still wider range of forest life. A government publication, it is a thorough study of the lives and habits of our trees, going into their variations under different climatic conditions, their range and occurrence, uses, and so forth, with a wealth of material.

References

Abrams, LeRoy. Illustrated Flora of the Pacific States. Vol. I. Stanford University Press, Stanford, California, 1940.

Chase, J. Smeaton. Cone-Bearing Trees of the California Mountains. McClurg & Company, Chicago, 1911.

Clark, Galen. Big Trees of California. Reflex Publishing Company, Redondo, California, 1907.

Cole, James E. Cone-Bearing Trees of Yosemite National Park. Yosemite Natural History Association, 1939.

Eastwood, Alice. A Handbook of the Trees of California. (Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences, IX.) San Francisco, 1905.

Ellsworth, R. S. The Giant Sequoia. Oakland, 1924. [Out of print.]

Fry, Walter, and White, John R. Big Trees. Stanford University Press, Stanford, California, 1930.

Hall, Harvey M., and Case, Carloita. A Yosemite Flora. Paul Elder & Company, San Francisco, 1912.

Hall, Ansel F. Handbook of Yosemite National Park. G. P. Putnam’s Sons, New York, 1921.

1. Article on “Yosemite Trees,” by Ansel F. Hall.
2. Article on “The Giant Sequoia,” by Willis Linn Jepson.

Jepson, Willis Linn. The Silva of California. (Memoirs of the University of California, II.) University of California Press, Berkeley, 1910.

Jepson, Willis Linn. Trees of California. Sather Gate Book Shop, Berkeley, 1923.

Kaiser, Harriet X. Our Native Trees and How to Identify Them. Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, 1923.

McMinn, Howard E., and Maino, Evelyn. An Illustrated Manual of Pacific Coast Trees. University of California Press, Berkeley, 1935.

Muir, John. The Mountains of California. Century Company, New York, 1912.

Rogers, Julia E. The Tree Book. Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, New York, 1923.

Smith, Elinor Shane. Yosemite Trees and How to Know Them. The Seven Arts, Carmel, California, 1929.

Sudworth, George B. Forest Trees of the Pacific Slope. United States Department of Agriculture, Division of Forestry, Washington, D.C., 1908.

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