Conifer Treasury of the World 3.0 2010
Welcome to the Conifer Treasury World – the Home of Garden Conifer Cultivars
30-years ago, I dreamed of a book containing a photo for every-cultivar, ever-discovered. My first book (1995 ’The Conifer Tresury of the World’ ) was the beginning of this very-long-endeavour that I set myself upon, without any photos. Ten years later came the Conifer Treasury 2.0 2005. Now in 2010, the 3rd-edition contains 15,100 cultivars, containing photos of 6238 of the cultivars. Of course a lot of things change in a period of 15-years, and now, the shear numbers are becoming more and more.
The Internet has since changed our way of life and information is now-only a click away...
You may wonder who these people are that contribute to this new „gene pool” of ever-increasing cultivated forms...? It’s simple, they are folks with an urban, as well as a non-urban sense for the collection & cultivation of witches’ brooms; new cultivars arise from the growing of the seeds of witches’ brooms, as-well... The number of new selections are growing as exponential models.
My path toward knowledge too has changed in finding new, paved pathways that have led myself in new-directions that were previously-unknown. A social networking exists and finding one person has led me to another; this is another leap I have made in my efforts to creating this huge-database. Previously, these breeders were, unknown.
Finding new men and women whom share this adventurous-personality also brings their plant-selections to our own gardens, and thus creates a bond among all gardeners alike & the propagators & the witches’ broom, hunters.
I have written my 3rd version ’The Conifer Treasury of the World’ (3.0) to provide the reader with as many well-known and in some cases, some conifer-enthusiasts that are not so well-known... as of yet. For the reader you will find the legacy, and history, of many new people now just being recognized for their achievements. Another feature of ’The Conifer Treasury of The World’ (3.0) is access to newly-written records that I will add as I discover them and upload their information... to my website. After that with local partners I would like to publish more national Conifer Treasuries, because these are the future grounds of conifering. Simply to find the creating people, the conifer breeders.
The creation of the 3.0 Treasury is a joint-effort of many folks who have helped me along this journey into the literal, unknown. I would like to thank for linkable photo collections:
The American Conifer Society
Larry Stanly, Oregon USA
Bob Fincham, Washington USA
Dax Herbst, Illinois USA
Nate Cassell, Colorado USA
Elemér Barabits, Hungary
József Hódi Tóth (HTJ), Hungary
Jiri Holata, Czech Republik
Ján Sláma, Czech Republik
Edwin Smits, The Netherlands
Jörg Kohout, Germany
Sabine zu Jeddeloh, Germany
Dariusz Burdan, Poland
Daglezja Nursery, Poland
Sylwester Tomszak, Poland
Clément Anthoine, Belgium
Henk van Kempen, The Netherlands
And many conifer collectors, who are gathered around the Gardenweb Conifer threads with their great knowlegdes, photo documentations.
Yours sincerely
Mesterházy, Zsolt
Editor of Conifer Treasury
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How the Conifer Treasury 3.0 Digital Edition works?
The greatest conifer checklist database ever published in the conifering history
Common english genus names
Statistics of the Conifer Treasury 3.0
74 genuses with 3,5 million photos, 807 species, 15100 cultivars, 6238 of them with photos from the WorldWideWeb, included 4000 new conifer cultivars since 1995. 1100 pages if printed.
Conifer Treasury 1995 behind the only printed copy of 3.0 in two bands, 1320 pages
Conifer Treasury 3.1 2011
Further informations about the Conifer Treasury 3.1: zs.mesterhazy@chello.hu
Ordering on CD
Koeltz Scientific Books, Königstein, Germany
Ordering as a book in 2 bands, 1400 pages + CD
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