A pretty good book, in all. The beginning has some cool facts regarding trees in scientific and historical religious context that I found very informative and interesting. It tried to clear up some of the "facts" that have been accepted as truths regarding the tree calendar and Ogham alphabets, I appreciated the effort and I enjoyed the writing style for the most part.

The middle of the book concentrated on spiritual communication with tree spirits and usage of tree products in magic, which was pretty good but in general not what I was most interested in.

The later part of the book included information on a number of trees with about 2 1/2 page for each including information on usage, historical religious information such as mentions in various greek, roman, germanic and celtic fables. Each also has a sketch of the leaf/branch/flower/seed pod structure of the tree which can be useful for those of us who are just beginning with tree identification.

In all a pretty good addition to my collection. ( )