VEITCHS MANUAL OF THE CONIFERA


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Manual of Cultivated Conifers


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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.







Hand-list of Coniferae


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Veitch's Manual of the Coniferae


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Excerpt from Veitch's Manual of the Coniferae: Containing a General Review of the Order; A Synopsis of the Species Cultivated in Great Britain; Their Botanical History, Economic Properties, Place and Use in Agriculture, Etc, Etc In this revised edition of Veitch's Manual of Coniferae I have endeavoured to collect from the best available sources every item of information that should prove useful and interesting to amateurs of this remarkable family of trees and shrubs and also to foresters and horticulturists. The descriptions of the species have been drawn up from fresh materials and from an inspection of the subjects themselves wherever practicable, and trees of the same species growing in different and distant parts of Great Britain have been visited with this object. In the comparatively few instances in which this has not been done, the descriptions are those of the authorities quoted. With the view of conveying an idea as accurate as can be obtained of the condition and aspect of the most important coniferous trees as seen in their native forests, the accounts of them given by those who have explored the forests are transcribed wholly or in part in preference to any studied paraphrasing of their statements. Especial attention has been given to the geographical distribution of the species and the climatic conditions under which they grow in their native homes, on the conviction that correct information on these points affords material aid to the successful cultivation of them in Great Britain. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."




Veitch's Manual of the Coniferae


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