Identical in format to two earlier and equally handsome books, Keble Martin’s “Concise British Flora in Colour” and Mansell and Newman’s “Complete British Butterflies in Colour,” “British Trees in Colour,” by Cyril Hart and Charles Raymond (Michael Joseph, 128 pp.) is assured of equal success. Sixty-three species of tree, both native and introduced, are covered. A full-page colour illustration is accompanied on the facing page by a sketch of the tree’s shape and a brief account of its history, habitat, and value as timber or ornament. The plate reproduced above, that of the rowan, or mountain ash, demonstrates the signal degree to which “British Trees in Colour” combines beauty and utility.

Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33448, 1 February 1974, Page 20

Identical in format to two earlier and equally handsome books, Keble Martin’s “Concise British Flora in Colour” and Mansell and Newman’s “Complete British Butterflies in Colour,” “British Trees in Colour,” by Cyril Hart and Charles Raymond (Michael Joseph, 128 pp.) is assured of equal success. Sixty-three species of tree, both native and introduced, are covered. A full-page colour illustration is accompanied on the facing page by a sketch of the tree’s shape and a brief account of its history, habitat, and value as timber or ornament. The plate reproduced above, that of the rowan, or mountain ash, demonstrates the signal degree to which “British Trees in Colour” combines beauty and utility.