Dendrologie: Bäume, Sträucher und Halbsträucher, welche in Mittel- und Nord-Europa im Freien kultivirt werden

Abstract

THE work of Prof. Karl Koch is a valuable addition to the literature of applied Botany; and no doubt throughout German-speaking countries it must early become the volume of all others most redolent of Nicotian essence on the shelves of people who concern themselves about tree-cultivation and general nursery-work. It has a considerable value, too, as a contribution to Scientific Botany, for its author has had long experience, with very favourable opportunities, in connection with everything woody,*hardy enough to bear exposure in the open air in Prussia. He is a good botanist and an enthusiast in his speciality, so that his book includes much useful information, especially of that kind, too seldom put on record, possessed by workers in the open air, or so scattered through periodical botanical and gardening literature, as to be hardly available at a pinch. To English botanists and nursery-folk it offers many interesting features. One amongst many others is the opportunity it affords of comparing the climatic differences between Britain and Central Europe, as deducible from the copious data which the "Dendrology“ gives relating to the capacity of the various species to resist the severity of continental winters. Dendrologie: Baume, Straucher und Halbstraucher, welche in Mittel- und Nord-Europa im Freien kultivirt werden. By Prof. Karl Koch. 8vo. Vol. I. 735 pp., without illustrations. (Erlangen: F. Enke, 1869. London: Asher and Co.; Williams and Norgate.)