An up-to-date encyclopedic reference to all known species, with the most complete listing of cultivars yet published. Since most magnolias are highly ornamental their garden use is a primary focus of the book, though every aspect of magnolias from history to hybridizing is treated.
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Timber Press, one of the more prolific publishers of books for gardeners, horticulturists, and botanists, provides readers with this first-rate guide to magnolias. In her introduction, Callaway points out that the flower was first cultivated by Chinese monks, to whom the flowers symbolized purity, as early as A.D. 650; it was introduced to European gardens in 1688. Callaway explains the biology and terminology of 80 species, followed by chapters on the species' culture, propagation, taxonony (naming and classification), cross-breeding, and hybridizers. The list of species offers information on each plant's scientific name, common name, native range, historical background, garden merits, flowering and fruiting dates, and cultivars and hybrids. George Cohen
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An encyclopedic book... which will interest any magnolia lover, whether a professional grower, landscaper, or lay person. She points out that magnolias are available in such variety that there are some for almost any situation in any size garden. -- Ruth Kvaalen "Indiana Nursery News" (05/01/1996)
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Journal of the Magnolia Society, New York, Arnold Arboretum, United States, North America, National Arboretum, Gresham Hybrid, Louisiana Nursery, North Carolina, Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Phil Savage, August Kehr, Bulletin of the Morris Arboretum, Treseder's Nurseries, Bloomfield Hills, Richard Figlar, Journal of Botany, Todd Gresham, New Zealand, Santa Cruz, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Magnolia Books, Strybing Arboretum, Harvard University, Star Magnolia New!
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"No group of trees and shrubs is more favorably known or more highly appreciated in gardens than magnolias, and no group produces larger or more abundant blossoms." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
magnolia books, sepaloid tepals, obovate tepals, magnolia breeders, petaloid tepals, variety subcordata, magnolia enthusiasts, becoming glabrous with age, glabrous tepals, magnolia nursery, evergreen tree reaching, tepal number, yellowish pubescence, glabrous branchlets, magnolia hybrids, cultivated magnolias, lilii flora, leaf apex, magnolia cultivars, broad tepals, brown tomentum, stipules adnate, outer seed coats, base cuneate, inner tepals Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Journal of the Magnolia Society, New York, Arnold Arboretum, United States, North America, National Arboretum, Gresham Hybrid, Louisiana Nursery, North Carolina, Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Phil Savage, August Kehr, Bulletin of the Morris Arboretum, Treseder's Nurseries, Bloomfield Hills, Richard Figlar, Journal of Botany, Todd Gresham, New Zealand, Santa Cruz, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Magnolia Books, Strybing Arboretum, Harvard University, Star Magnolia New!
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