The origin and cultivation of shade and ornamental trees.

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Even before the Hebrews passed on their legend of the tree of knowledge, humans were collecting seeds and striplings from trees for shade, to cultivate fruit, and to worship as deities of natural forces. In Shade and Ornamental Trees Hui-Lin Li traces this relationship across the continents and over...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Li, Hui-Lin, 1911-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press [1963]
Temas:
Shade trees.
Flowering trees.
Arbres d'ombrage.
Arbres à fleurs.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Horticulture.
Flowering trees
Shade trees
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • 1. The Cultivation of Trees by Mankind
  • 2. The Weeping Willow and Lombardy Poplar
  • 3. The Plane Trees
  • 4. The Ginkgo
  • 5. The Horse Chestnuts
  • 6. The Lindens
  • 7. The Maples
  • 8. The Black Locust and Honey Locust
  • 9. The Metasequoia
  • 10. Conifers
  • 11. Ornamental Flowering Trees
  • 12. Other Important Genera of Shade Trees
  • 13. Cultivated Shade Trees Originated in Europe and Western to Central Asia
  • 14. Eastern Asia as a Center of Origin of Cultivated Trees
  • 15. North America as a Center of Origin of Cultivated Trees
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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