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There is increasing number of trees dying in large urban agglomerations. The problem is mostly pronounced in the case of street trees. In Polish cities, apart of pollutions generated by traffic, an important factor that causes death of trees is high salt concentration as a result of winter salt application for de-icing of streets. The aim of the study was to assess the growth of limes (Tilia cordata)...
The work analyses the condition of forty nine trees in Świdnica (in the Lower Silesian Voivodship). The listed trees in this town belong to eighteen species, half of which are native and half foreign to our flora. The vast majority are angiosperms. The majority of the listed trees at Świdnica are English Oak (Quercus robur), the rarest examples include Common Ash (Fraxinus excelsior), Silver Maple...
Military archives of the French Army at Vincennes retain many documents of the Napoleonic war. Some of these documents relate to Poland and Lithuania. The military intelligence reports have sometimes been subject to the forests. The article presents the analysis of three of these documents. The two reports on the forests of Lithuania and a forestry part of a report of General Sokolnicki. These documents...
Mikołaj Karpow-Lipski (1896-1981) studied at the best horticultural schools in the Russian partition – at the Warsaw School of Horticulture at the Pomological Garden and then at the famous Horticultural and Agricultural College at Humann. From 1928 he worked on the production and selection of many horticultural and agricultural plants (vines, currants, gooseberries, pears, rhubarb and peonies). His...
The roadside avenues in the open landscape of the Western Pomerania are a very characteristic element, deciding about its identity. Unfortunately in recent years due to the road modernization there has been lasting uncontrolled, simply mass cutting out of the roadside avenues. The grounds of taking action for the preservation of historical avenues is their valorization, based on standardized, synthetic...
Trees are an important component of the urban landscape. Their aesthetics qualities and especially a positive impact on the environment translate into increased life quality of urban communities. From this point of view the aspect of trees’ growth in urban areas is an object of intensive research all over the world. The better the knowledge of factors and mechanisms affecting growth and development...
Bolesław Orzechowicz (1847-1927), the first president of the Polish Dendrology Society between 1925 and 1927, was an extraordinarily generous patron of the arts and scientific societies in Lvov. In 1914, just before the outbreak of the World War I, he donated half a million crowns to the Society for the Promotion of Polish Science in Lvov. In 1916, influenced by the most eminent group of friends and...
The resistance to frost and winter conditions is a very important aspect of plant and rose cultivation in the Polish climate. The number of new cultivars from around the world available in Polish nurseries is constantly on the increase. The collection of roses in the Botanical Garden of PAS was founded in 1998. There are more than six hundred and ninety taxa and culta of all groups of garden roses...
This article covers seventeen Polish arboreta, of which six belong to academic institutions, seven to the State Forestry Commission, three to local authorities and one is private. Seven are park arboreta, normally surrounding palaces or manor houses, however ten were set up in woodland, near forests, or on the sites of former forest nurseries. The article discusses the establishing of new arboreta,...
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