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Index
Cover
Also by Jill Jonnes
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
Contents
INTRODUCTION: “We Appreciate the Symmetry of Human and Sylvan Life”
CHAPTER ONE: “So Great a Botanical Curiosity” and “The Celestial Tree”: Introducing the Ginkgo and Ailanthus
CHAPTER TWO: “No Man Does Anything More Visibly Useful to Posterity Than He Who Plants a Tree”: Inventing Arbor Day and Cities of Trees
CHAPTER THREE: “A Demi-God of Trees” and “The Tree Doctor”: Charles Sprague Sargent and John Davey
CHAPTER FOUR: “This Fungus Is the Most Rapid and Destructive Known”: A Plague Strikes the American Chestnut
CHAPTER FIVE: “Washington Would One Day Be Famous for Its Flowering Cherry Trees”: Eliza Scidmore and David Fairchild
CHAPTER SIX: “I Knew That There Were No Roads in China”: Plant Explorers Frank Meyer and E. H. Wilson
CHAPTER SEVEN: “A Poem Lovely as a Tree”: Cherishing Memorial and Historic Trees
CHAPTER EIGHT: “The Two Great Essentials for an Arboretum, Soil and Money”: Chicago, D.C., and Boston
CHAPTER NINE: “Imagine the Wiping Out of the Beautiful Avenues of Elms”: Battling to Save an American Icon
CHAPTER TEN: “A Forest Giant Just on the Edge of Extinction!”: Discovering the Dawn Redwood
CHAPTER ELEVEN: “There Was No Question That People Wanted to Save This Tree”: Crusading for a New American Elm
CHAPTER TWELVE: “Having Cities Work with Forces of Nature”: The Rise of the New Urban Forestry
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: “Trees Are the Answer”: John Hansel, Henry Stern, Deborah Gangloff, and George Bush
CHAPTER FOURTEEN: “Don’t Trees Clean the Air?”: Rowan Rowntree, Greg McPherson, and David Nowak
CHAPTER FIFTEEN: “We Stand a Great Chance of Seeing a Return of the Stately and Valuable American Elm”: Rebirth of an Iconic Tree?
CHAPTER SIXTEEN: “I Never Saw Such a Bug in My Life”: Attack of the Asian Long-Horned Beetles
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: “On That Branch Was a Four-Inch Green Shoot with Leaves”: Ground Zero Survivor Trees
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: “I Was Surprised It Was So Aggressive”: Waging War on the Emerald Ash Borer
CHAPTER NINETEEN: “Putting in an Urban Forest Instead of a Storm Drain”: High-Tech Meets a Million Trees
CHAPTER TWENTY: “Help Restore a Lost Piece of American History”: Return of the Elm
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: “Oh, My God! They’re Really Here”: Further Conquests of the Asian Beetles
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO: “A Tree Is Shaped by Its Experiences”: The Survivor Trees
AFTERWORD: “The Answer Is Urban Forests”
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
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