Good Organic Gardening

COVER TO COVER

THE STORY OF TREES

By Kevin Hobbs & David West, Thames & Hudson, $49.99

Early this year, during the Gospers Mountain blaze near Sydney, firefighters battled to save 200 Wollemi pines, a species unique to the area and discovered just 26 years ago. The operation was a success, preserving a small forest that scientists believe could be 100,000 years old. These “dinosaur trees” aren’t the only down-under lumber — another living fossil — to the English oak that built an imperial navy and the Roman stone pines that provide the “nuts” for pesto as well as the resin that stops ballerinas’ shoes from slipping. It’s a tree-hugger’s delight.

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