Maples of the World - Hardcover

Gelderen, D.M.Van; Etc.; Jong, P.C. De; Oterdoom, H.J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0881920002 ISBN 13: 9780881920000

Verlag: Timber Press, 1994

Inhaltsangabe

in-4, cartonnage sous jaquette illustrée, 458 pp., 207 photos en couleurs hors-texte, quelques figures en noir, index, importante bibliographie. Première édition reliée de 1994. Photographies de J. R. P. Van Hoyey Smith. Petite déchirure en bordure supérieure de la jaquette, sinon très bon état général.

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magnificent... the greatest single source of information on this subject... essential reading The mass of information given in these chapters is impressive. -- Roy Lancaster "Garden (Peterborough)" (12/01/1994) "Maples of the World" is probably the most definitive text ever written on the genus Acer... will be essential for nursery managers, botanists, landscape designers, and horticulturists. "[Maples of the World]" is indispensable for every horticulturalis, botanist and everybody interested in trees, world of gardens and parks, and nature in general. -- V. Mikolas "Thaiszia" (02/01/1996) The book was eagerly awaited for many years, and is the first comprehensive work on maples...This scholarly work deserves to be on the bookshelf of every serious student of Acerology. -- James Harris "Hortus" (02/01/2000) We have come to expect lavishly illustrated, strongly bound, fairly priced books on horticultural topics from Timber Press, and this work is no exception. The authors bring to the subject vast experience, scholarship, and an obvious love of the plants themselves. Essential reading for botanists, researchers, and students involved with the maple genus, and a mine of information for maple enthusiasts, horticulturists, gardeners and tree lovers... quite a remarkable value for money. -- Peter Gregory "Arboricultural Journal" (02/01/2000) Maple enthusiasts... will be rejoicing to have....the most comprehensive account in English of their favourite genus. It is a book that will attract far more than a specialist readership, for the maples, in their multiplicity of size, colour and form provide some of the most powerful and poetic effects in the garden and the urban landscape. The authors bring to the subject vast experience, scholarship, and an obvious love of the plants themselves.We have come to expect lavishly illustrated, strongly bound, fairly priced books on horticultual topics from Timber Press, and this work is no exception. Many will be attracted to this book for its magnificent color photographs. -- Neil A. Harriman "Economic Botany" (02/01/1995) This long-awaited masterwork has no peer. Virtually every species and named variety of maple known to horticulture is represented here, and when the publisher calls the bibliography 'exhaustive, ' no hyperbole is involved. Several hundred photographs enliven the text, which is simlarly authoritative. An invaluable resource that could scarcely be surpassed. This monumental achievement will serve as the standard reference for students and fanciers of maples for the next decade, and perhaps even longer. This book should be in every public library as well as on the shelf of dendrologists, serious horiculturists, and taxonomoists interested in temperate woody plants. -- Thomas Elias "American Society of Plant Taxonomists Newsletter" (01/01/1995) "This long-awaited masterwork has no peer. Virtually every species and named variety of maple known to horticulture is represented here ... An invaluable resource that could scarcely be surpassed." --Horticulture, February 2000 "Truly comprehensive." --Booklist, February 1, 2000 " This long-awaited masterwork has no peer. Virtually every species and named variety of maple known to horticulture is represented here ... An invaluable resource that could scarcely be surpassed." -- Horticulture, February 2000 " Truly comprehensive." -- Booklist, February 1, 2000

Reseña del editor:

Acer holds a proud place among the largest and most important woody genera. Its significance in both ornamental and economic uses is matched by its taxonomic complexity. This book represents the fruit of almost two decades of work by its distinguished authors. In 1975, three years before Timber Press published his landmark Japanese Maples, the late J. D. Vertrees visited the authors - a nurseryman, a taxonomist/dendrologist, and an avid maple collector - in The Netherlands and suggested that they collaborate to produce a definitive work on the genus. The challenge was accepted, and the three, for a time calling themselves the Club of Acerologists, set to work. An early outline of the book optimistically called for completion and publication within five years! As the initial work began, it became clear that a massive research effort was required; this took far longer than the authors had anticipated. A full nineteen years after its initial conception the much-anticipated book is appearing, the first truly comprehensive treatment of the genus. Among the topics discussed are the history of maple names, maple structure, native habitats and distribution, pests and diseases, propagation, paleobotany and evolution, and reproduction and taxonomy. The heart of the book is the proposed revision of the genus, which combines with the exhaustive descriptions of hybrids and cultivars to create the greatest single source of information on maples in any language. The more than 200 color photographs of significant species and cultivars add greatly to the book's usefulness. Of enormous importance to botanists because of its taxonomic and nomenclatural contributions, as well as for its exhaustivebibliography, Maples of the World is a significant book for horticulturists, landscape architects and designers, growers, and gardeners because of the key role maples play in ornamental plantings.

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• Verlag: Timber Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0881920002
• ISBN 13: 9780881920000
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 478
• Zeichner: Smith J.R.P.V.H., Smith J.R.P.Van Hoey