By Anne Krantz, NH Big Tree Team,

Essays about tree species found in New Hampshire, published by UNH Cooperative Extension and written by Natural Resource Volunteers.  Focus on Big Tree Specimens.

Several species of insects bore into NH apple trees, including roundheaded apple tree borer, flatheaded apple tree borer, dogwood borer, leopard moth and the broad-necked root borer.

Workshop Proceedings 2011 including: tree biology, insects, diseases, weeds, diagnosing problems, pesticides (insecticides, fungicides, miticides and herbicides) and more.

This manual was prepared for the New Hampshire Pesticide Safety Education Program as part of the study materials for the Christmas tree category for private and commercial applicators.

Guide for growing dwarf apple trees at home.

Summarizes a quick and efficient method to estimate the volume of potentially salvageable timber blown over by heavy winds. This description presumes an understanding of standard methods for estimating standing timber.

Describes when to fertilize; how to manage soil pH; what fertilizers to use; how much to use; and how to apply fertilizers.

A list of non-native trees not yet recognized in the Big Tree Program.

Complete Listing of NH Big Trees (in accordance with American Forests' National Register of Big Trees). The list doesn't include non-native big trees.

Describes a survey conducted in 1998 in Manchester using a statistically accurate method of estimating the species composition of an urban street tree population quickly, and accurately, with an acceptable level of error.

Chart showing native plants and their value to wildlife (which parts are eaten by which species)

This curious tree with its almost tropical show of speckled white flowers, looks out of place in  New England;  too showy for out Puritan tastes.  The elegant trumpet shaped flowers are clustered on panicles (stems) in tiers with three smaller stems. The first two tiers produce three flowers at the end of these smaller stems to add up to nine individual flowers per tier or 18 flowers on the two tiers.  The lower tiers have but one flower at the end of the smaller stem or six additional flowers.  There were 24 individual flowers on the cluster that I counted.  Somehow the seeds produced by the flowers end up inside long skinny 6” -12 “ beans that dangle from the tree later in the summer; hanging on through the winter.

Information on selecting trees and shrubs, transferring them into the ground, and caring for them by watering and mulching.

Gives a checklist for success to plant and grow trees correctly, and to properly maintain new and older plantings.

Information on the techniques of pruning shade trees.

How to select and plant trees and shrubs.

Proper training and pruning is essential for development of structurally strong, productive apple and pear trees that will bear high quality fruits annually for many years.

Illustrates and describes how to measure the diameter and height of trees and to use that information and forest sampling methods to estimate the volume of timber on a woodlot. Includes useful charts and formulas.