1 Blackwood - A Handbook For Growers and End Users
FRI Bulletin 225
Ian Nicholas and Ian Brown
Paperback, 95 pages, 210 x 295mm, NZ, 2002. $55

List of contents:

* Species recognition, history and habitat
* Timber properties, market and resource
* Site requirements and land use
* Agroforestry
* Seed, genetics and clonal propagation
* Seedling production, establishment and nutrition
* Forest health
* Management options
* Growth habit and malformation
* Pruning and thinning
* Growth model, yields, suggested regime
* Economic analyses
* Utilisation


Paperback edition -

2 Treehouses
Paula Henderson and Adam Mornement
Paperback, 175 pages, 250 x 295mm, UK, 2005. $63

>From the cover -

Treehouses - as children's hideaways, ornamental garden features, spiritual retreats and even as offices, studios and full-time homes, treehouses provide places of isolation, independence and imagination, where one can literally rise above the demands of daily life.

This book explores these ever-popular structures around the world: from the treehouse-dwelling tradition of South Sea hunter-gatherers to the Green Magic eco-treehouse resort in Kerala, India; from the 400-year-old chapel- in-an-oak in Normandy to the 'tree nest' and 'tree tunnel' that movie star John Malkovich created for his children. The authors describe ornamental treehouses in gardens of the past, people who have taken to the trees as a way of life and the ecologically sustainable structures using modern technology that will be the treehouses of tomorrow's world.

The book includes advice on the practicalities of construction from expert treehouse builders. Authoritative and well-researched, with fabulous photographs and illustrations, it is destined to become the classic work of this magical subject.