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IN 1909 Mr. Clinton-Baker and Mr. A. Bruce Jackson were jointly responsible for the publication of two volumes of very good illustrations and descriptions of the older introduced conifers, and four years later they produced a third volume dealing with some of the lesser known species. The work was so well received, and has since proved so useful, that the authors were induced to undertake a fourth volume to include illustrations of the more recently introduced species and little known kinds that had previously been omitted. Unfortunately, Mr. Clinton-Baker did not live to see the new volume published, for he died in April, 1935, as the work was going through the press. Mr. Clinton-Baker inherited a pinetum that had been formed by his grandfather nearly one hundred years ago, and he planted a large number of additional species. In a memorial notice following the introduction to the new volume, Mr. Jackson pays tribute to his colleague's great love for plants and trees and to his ardour in maintaining the arboriculturai traditions of Bayfordbury. The frontispiece to the new volume depicts some old cedars of Lebanon that are, apparently, the ones referred to in the first volume as having been planted to commemorate the building of the house at Bayfordbury in 1765.
Illustrations of New Conifers
By H. Clinton-Baker A. Bruce Jackson. Pp. ix + 78 + 96 plates. (Hertford: Simson and Co., Ltd., 1935.) 84s.
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Illustrations of New Conifers. Nature 137, 558 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137558a0
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