MANUAL OF CULTIVATED CONIFERS - Hardy in the cold and warm-temperate zone

Inbunden bok. The Hague / Martinus Nijhoff. 1 uppl. 1965. 526 sidor.

Nära nyskick. 26.5 x 20.5 cm. 3 cm tjock. 1700 gram. Förlagets dekorerade mörkgröna helklotband i perfekt skick.
As an introduction to the present book I would like to explain how it was, that I, a commercial nurseryman, became so keenly interested in Conifers and their nomen­ clature. In August 1924 the Dutch Dendrological Society was founded and at the same time a Committee for Nomenclature of woody plants was set up and I served on this committee as one of the members. Our first activity was to bring the catalogues of the various leading nurserymen in the Netherlands into line with the International Rules of Botanical Nomenclature and also to check their nursery stock. Formerly these catalogues had shown a rather confused nomenclature, nurserymen having usually made use of a variety of inconsistent books as guides in compiling their catalogues. In the course of the work a close co-operation between scientific and practical workers developed. Although I had also fully contributed to the correct naming of hardy shrubs and perennials, 1 was most interested in Conifers. I had tried out several species, had grown a wide choice of garden forms and selected types of particular merit for propagation. My special love for Conifers lead to the publication of my Name-list of Conifers (1937), which was adopted as a standard for varietal names at the International Horticultural Congress in Berlin (1938). Later I prepared my book 'Coniferen, Ephedra en Ginkgo' in the Dutch language (1949); compiling the Conifers cultivated or known to be grown in the Netherlands and Belgium at that time.
Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover first printing, "contains descriptions of species, varieties and cultivars, still in cultivation or lost or unknown to the trade. The names of all cultivars published since 1753, in cultivation or not, are given with references to the literature. The total number amounts to no less than 303 species, 208 varieties and formae 1935 cultivars," 526 pages, illustrated with black and white photos.