Forestry is closely related but really is a different goal dealing with plants. Arboriculture can be considered to have a similar relationship to Forestry as gardening has to agriculture.

Here are some of the basic and assummed facts about trees:

~By having trees around your house providing shade, they will reduce cooling costs.

~By having trees around your house providing shelter, they will reduce heating costs.

~Trees will keep the air supply fresh because they absorb carbon dioxide and produce oxygen.

~An acre of trees can absorb as much carbon as is produced by a car driven up to 8700 miles in one year,

~In an big city enviroment a tree will last only about 8 years.

~Air temperature is lowered by the evaporating water in their leaves.

~The roots of trees will prevent erosion and help stabilize the soil.

~Trees improve water quality by slowing and filtering the rain water, also protecting aquifers and watersheds.

~Protection from the canopy of the tree slows down the fall of rain, sleet and hail.

~The wildlife count on the trees for food and shelter.

~The longest living organisms on earth are trees.

~When the trees breathe in they take in carbon and breathe out oxygen, when people breathe in they take in oxygen and put out carbon dioxide.

~Oxygen produced by just 1 acre of trees per year will provide enough to take care of 18 people for that year.

~On the average a tree in one year will produce 260 pounds of oxygen.

~One acre of trees can remove up to 2.6 tons of carbon dioxide each year.

~Shade trees surrounding buildings will make up to 20 degrees cooler in the summer.

~When the seed of the cottonwood tree takes flight it will stay aloft the longest.

~One million seeds per year can be produced the a adult birch tree.

~The General Sherman, a large redwood sequoia in California, is one of the tallest softwood trees in the world.

~The tallest tree in the world is a coast redwood in California that is more than 360 feet.

~The Ada Tree of Australia is 236 feet tall with a root system that spreads out for over a acre.

~Bristlecone pines are said to be the oldest trees in the world at 4600 years.

~The science of calculating a tree's age by its rings is called Dendrochronology.

~Tree rings provide exact info about environmental events, including volcanic eruptions.

If there is anything you need for your TREES, SHRUBS we have it.

	Web www.basic-info-4-organic-fertilizers.com