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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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