The Origin and Cultivation of Shade and Ornamental Trees / / Hui-Lin Li.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Package Archive 1898-1999
• VerfasserIn: Li, Hui-Lin,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2018]; ©1963
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Anniversary Collection
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 82 illus.
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781512817645; 9783110442526
• DOI: 10.9783/9781512817645
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Hui-Lin Li.

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 time to relay an organic history of the world's civilizations.