Shade and ornamental trees
Subtitle: their origin and history
By: Hui-Lin Li.
Contributors: University of Pennsylvania. Morris Arboretum.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
Subjects: Shade trees.; Ornamental trees.
Description: "Tying together human migration with the spread of the cultivation of trees, the author has written a fascinating and informative book that tells the story of tree cultivation from ancient to modern times. The dispersion and variation of the more important trees is, in a sense, the story of the rise of civilization, for civilized societies have almost always cultivated trees for ornamentation and shade."--BOOK JACKET. "The subject of trees touches many aspects of human activity. It is a subject that is of concern not only to the professional horticulturist, arborist, and dendrologist but also to historians, geographers, and anthropologists."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-265) and indexes.
"The Morris Arboretum"--P. facing t.p.
Originally published as: The origin and cultivation of shade and ornamental trees.