The genus Galanthus, commonly called snowdrops, numbers among its species the most charming of the late-winter- and early-spring-flowering bulbs. They are hardy, and their ethereal white flowers appear when all else in the garden is still bound by winter.
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Aaron P. Davis' excellent monograph... one can never say the last word on such a subject... -- New York Times Review of Books, January 20, 2000
For zealous collectors of snowdrops, this long-awaited book is as welcome as the first buds pushing through the ground... -- Cottage Gardener, March 2000
Galanthus lovers must have this book... -- John E Bryan, Gardening Newsletter, December 1999
If you have any interest in this group you should have this book. -- Alan Leslie, The Garden, RHS, April 2000
It maintains the uniquely high standards expected of this series and as always... elevate it to a higher plane. -- John Grimshaw, Bulbs: Newsletter of the Int'l Bulb Society, Vol 1, No.2, Fall 1999
For zealous collectors of snowdrops, this long-awaited book is as welcome as the first buds pushing through the ground... -- Cottage Gardener, March 2000
Galanthus lovers must have this book... -- John E Bryan, Gardening Newsletter, December 1999
If you have any interest in this group you should have this book. -- Alan Leslie, The Garden, RHS, April 2000
It maintains the uniquely high standards expected of this series and as always... elevate it to a higher plane. -- John Grimshaw, Bulbs: Newsletter of the Int'l Bulb Society, Vol 1, No.2, Fall 1999
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This monograph treats the 18 species & includes most of the more than 500 named cultivars.
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Chapter One of Snowdrops and Snowflakes by Stern (1956) provides a useful overview of the early literature and pre-Linnaean classifications of Galanthus. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
supervolute vernation, inner perianth segments, adaxial surface smooth, surfaces concolorous, apical mark, explicative margins, outer perianth segments, flowering developing, two separate marks, midrib conspicuous, other snowdrops, noteworthy plants, apical notch, basal mark, segments obovate, double snowdrop, apex obtuse, median stripe, abaxial surface, one apical, seedling selected, flore pleno, leaf colour, apex acute, segments bear Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Royal General, Plant Awards, Bulb Book, Trudy Tbilissk Bot, Black Sea, British Isles, Oliver Wyatt, Sada Akad, John Gray, Daffodil Tulip Year Book, Lady Beatrix Stanley, European Turkey, Taxonomy of Galanthus, Wiener Ill, Anglesey Abbey, Greatorex Doubles, Vincent Square, William Thomson, Hyde Lodge, Kew Bull, Samuel Arnott, Caspian Sea, Giant Snowdrop Company, Istanbul Province, Lower Slaughter New!
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Chapter One of Snowdrops and Snowflakes by Stern (1956) provides a useful overview of the early literature and pre-Linnaean classifications of Galanthus. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
supervolute vernation, inner perianth segments, adaxial surface smooth, surfaces concolorous, apical mark, explicative margins, outer perianth segments, flowering developing, two separate marks, midrib conspicuous, other snowdrops, noteworthy plants, apical notch, basal mark, segments obovate, double snowdrop, apex obtuse, median stripe, abaxial surface, one apical, seedling selected, flore pleno, leaf colour, apex acute, segments bear Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Royal General, Plant Awards, Bulb Book, Trudy Tbilissk Bot, Black Sea, British Isles, Oliver Wyatt, Sada Akad, John Gray, Daffodil Tulip Year Book, Lady Beatrix Stanley, European Turkey, Taxonomy of Galanthus, Wiener Ill, Anglesey Abbey, Greatorex Doubles, Vincent Square, William Thomson, Hyde Lodge, Kew Bull, Samuel Arnott, Caspian Sea, Giant Snowdrop Company, Istanbul Province, Lower Slaughter New!
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- Color Your Garden: The Royal Horticultural Society (Rhs) by Jill Billington in Front Matter, page 207, and Back Matter
- Flora of Turkey, Volume 7: Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, Vol. 7 by P. H. Davis in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- International Code of Botanical Nomenclature (Regnum Vegetabile, Vol 118) by W. Greuter in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Handbook of the Amaryllideae by J G Baker in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- My Garden in Spring by E. A. Bowles on page 237, and Back Matter
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