Practical Woody Plant Propagation for Nursery Growers I.

Fülszöveg

This is the first comprehensive book on plant propagation oriented to the practical needs of the professional nursery grower. In great detail, Bruce Macdonald leads the grower through all the steps in developing and maintaining a profitable propagation unit.
Macdonald thoroughly outlines the principles and techniques of
• Seed propagation
• Cuttings
• Shcking
• Layering
• Grafting
• Micropropagation
He devotes separate chapters to
• Facilities
• Media
• Tools
• Containers
• Diseases
Each chapter includes numerous examples of those species best suited to specific techniques and tools. More than 600 black-and-white illustrations augment the text.
Volume ii is planned as a dictionary detailing the most successful propagation techniques for each genus/species entry.
This book is a landmark, and will remain so for a long time. It must be the most comprehensive publication in the English language on the propagation of woody plants on a commercial scale a monumental... Tovább

Fülszöveg

This is the first comprehensive book on plant propagation oriented to the practical needs of the professional nursery grower. In great detail, Bruce Macdonald leads the grower through all the steps in developing and maintaining a profitable propagation unit.
Macdonald thoroughly outlines the principles and techniques of
• Seed propagation
• Cuttings
• Shcking
• Layering
• Grafting
• Micropropagation
He devotes separate chapters to
• Facilities
• Media
• Tools
• Containers
• Diseases
Each chapter includes numerous examples of those species best suited to specific techniques and tools. More than 600 black-and-white illustrations augment the text.
Volume ii is planned as a dictionary detailing the most successful propagation techniques for each genus/species entry.
This book is a landmark, and will remain so for a long time. It must be the most comprehensive publication in the English language on the propagation of woody plants on a commercial scale a monumental work. J. D. Lamb, The Garden (rhs)
TIMBER PRESS, Inc. isbn 0-88192-062-2
Bruce Macdonald is director of the Botanical Garden at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. He has been there since 1980 and has worked with the British Columbia Nursery Trades Association to develop the innovative, internationally acclaimed Plant Introduction Scheme of the Botanical Garden (pisbg).
Previously, Macdonald served as senior lecturer in nursery stock production at Hadlow College of Horticulture and Agriculture in Kent, Great Britain, for ten years. He is past secretary and honorary life member of the Great Britain and Ireland Region of the International Plant Propagators' Society (ipps) and past president of the Western Region of the ipps. Currently he is president of the Canadian Ornamental Plant Foundation.
Macdonald has more than four years of practical working experience at nurseries in the United Kingdom. In addition, he has visited and studied nurseries in Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, and France.


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Jacket illustrations: (Large photo) Pot-grown Uners of Snake Bark Maples, courtesy Oakover Nurseries Ltd., Kent, U.K. (Left inset) Greenhouse conifer seedling production in Styro-blocks®, courtesy Hybrid Nurseries Ltd., B.C., Canada. (Middle inset) Callused side veneer graft of Fagus sylvatica cultivars, courtesy Les Clay & Son Ltd., B.C., Canada. (Right inset) Micropropagation growing room, courtesy Les Clay & Son Ltd. Photographs by the author.
TIMBER PRESS, Inc. 133 S.W. Second Avenue Suite 450
Portland, Oregon 97204 U.S.A.
tel. 1-800-327-5680 (U.S.A. and Canada only)
Printed in Hong Kong

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