THE TREES OF NORTH CAROLINA. Along with KEYS TO THE TREES OF NORTH CAROLINA AND TO THE SHRUBS AND VINES OF CHAPEL HILL. ( Signed )
Chapel Hill: W. C. Coker, 1916. 1st edition. Cloth. 1st edition, 1916. A Good+ copy. 8vo., 106 pp., bound in publishers green cloth. From The Totten Library at The North Carolina Botanical Garden with label on spine, stamp on end page & title page. Spine is faded, cloth worn at tips and edges. Signature of Mary Bell Taylor inside front cover, otherwise text appears unmarked. 18 pp., booklet with Totten's signature on front cover. Text appears unmarked. A SCARCE book on North Carolina botany. Good+. Item #36270
In the Chapel Hill area, Coker found a region rich botanically but largely unexplored. He began work on the local flora and published within a year a list of the woody plants of Chapel Hill. This interest, continued and expanded with the help of H. R. Totten, led to the publication of Trees of North Carolina in 1916.
The North Carolina Botanical Garden (NCBG) and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill share a deep botanical legacy. It began in 1903 when UNC’s first botany professor, William Chambers Coker, planted a teaching collection that became Coker Arboretum. In the late 1920s, Coker and student Henry Roland Totten envisioned a larger botanical garden, and in 1952, the university dedicated 70 acres for its development.
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