Alfred Rehder
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Alfred Rehder was a German-American botanical taxonomist and dendrologist who worked at the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University. He is generally regarded as the foremost dendrologist of his generat
Rehder in the Arnold Arboretum library in 1898, shortly after his arrival in the U.S.
Rehder's birthplace, Waldenburg Castle
Möller's Deutsche Gärtner-Zeitung (1898)
Ernest Henry Wilson
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Ernest Henry "Chinese" Wilson, better known as E. H. Wilson, was an English plant collector and explorer who introduced a large range of about 2,000 Asian plant species to the West; some sixty bear hi
Alfred Rehder
…had a particular focus on dendrology but also covered other botanical fields. He was instrumental in systematizing the thousands of plants collected by Ernest Henry Wilson in China. Rehder created the first system of isothermic zones for the United States that related average winter minimum temperatures to the hardiness…
E H Wilson
The Regal Lily, L. regale
The Wilson stump (ウィルソン株, Wilson kabu) is at elevation 1,030m in Yakushima. The tree, Sugi, when it was cut by the Shimazu clan under order of Toyotomi Hideyoshi to build Hōkō-ji in 1586, had an estimated age of over 3,000 years. The base circumference is 32 m and 4.39 m across at chest height. The hollow is 10 tatami width and contains a small Kamidana. (Click to see the men standing in the hollow.)
The Wilson stump (ウィルソン株, Wilson kabu) seen in the distance.