L. Wittmack - Gartenflora: Zeitschrift für Garten - und Blumenkunde - 1897

Vol. 46 (1897); 670 pp., 12 chromolithographed plates (numbered 1434-1445) and 91 text illustrations, 1 large folded map of the garden in Berlin, Treptower Park.
Half cloth on marbled boards; some wear on the boards; spine bit damaged at top and bottom, simple paper label on spine. Binding rather weak, with one gathering detached.
The number of plates is corrected with pencil on the titlepage (18 to the correct 12); the number of text illustrations is 91 (not 111 as on the title page).
A very good volume of this interesting magazine, with nice plates.

* Carl Ludwig Max Wittmack (1839 – 1929) was a German botanist.
In 1874, he became affiliated with the University of Berlin. He was professor of Botany at the Agricultural College in Berlin (1880-1913), professor of botany at the University of Veterinary Medicine in Berlin (1880-1920), director of the Experiment Station of the Association of German Müller (1875-1905), a member of the department for seed cultivation in the German Agricultural Society (1883-1924), and Director of the Agricultural Institute (1889-91 and 1910-13).
From 1887, he was editor of the magazine Gartenflora (from the Vereins zur Beförderung des Gartenbaues in den preussischen Staaten), founded in 1852 by the German botanist Eduard August von Regel.

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