448 pages, 4.75x 8 1/2 , 2 maps, 48 color photos
540 b&w line drawings
Paperback
Published in association with Center for American Places

What to look for in the new edition:

* Added locations: the FDR Memorial; the Smithsonian Institution gardens; the Tudor Place grounds; the Bishop’s Garden of the Washington National Cathedral; Audubon Naturalist Society sanctuaries; and much more.

* “City of Trees” history from 1987 to 2007, including the establishment of Casey Trees and the importance of the urban canopy in the twenty-first century.

* Twice as many pages of color photographs, new species descriptions and illustrations, and added habitat information.

Melanie Choukas-Bradley is the author of Sugarloaf: The Mountain’s History, Geology, and Natural Lore (Virginia) and An Illustrated Guide to Eastern Woodland Wildflowers and Trees (Virginia). She is a long-time contributor to the Washington Post, a field botany instructor for the USDA Graduate School, and a field trip leader for the Audubon Naturalist Society. Polly Alexander lives in Essex Junction, Vermont, with her husband and son. Since City of Trees was first published in 1981, she has worked at an advertising agency, owned a graphic design firm, and illustrated numerous books and articles.

Washington, D.C., boasts more than three hundred species of trees from America, Europe, Africa, and Asia, and City of Trees has been the authoritative guide for locating. identifying, an learning about them for more than twenty-five years. The third edition is fully revised, updated, and expanded and includes an eloquent new foreword by the Washington Post's garden editor, Adrian Higgins.

"A splendid field guide - practical, botanically sound, and filled with good stories." - Washington Post Book World

"The District, as locals call it, has a long history of tree planting and maintenance. That's because the city's founders understood both the symbolic and ecological value of trees, according to City of Trees, the authoritative history and field guide to Washington's trees." - American Forests Magazine

"Definitive...[The] book is not only full of trees, buds, catkins, berries...it is also full of history." - Christian Science Monitor