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and a Nomenclatural Update by James E. Eckenwalder
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Copyright 1995 by Timber Press, Inc.
First published in 1967 by The Viking Press
Timber Press thanks Mr. and Mrs. Edwin A. Menninger, Jr., for their assistance in locating and sorting the original prints from which the photographs for this edition have been reproduced, and Roy L. Taylor and Virginia A. Henrichs of the Chicago Botanic Garden for the preservation and courteous loan of the photographic prints. Michael T. Stieber of the Morton Arboretum also provided helpful assistance.
Photograph on page 217 The Walt Disney Company
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Menninger, Edwin Arnold, 18961995 Fantastic trees / by Edwin A. Menninger; with a new foreword by Jack Siebenthaler; and a nomenclatural update by James E. Eckenwalder. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 0-88192-324-9 1. Trees. I. Title. QK475.M45 1995 582.16dc20 95-14460 CIP
Printed in Hong Kong
Timber Press, Inc. 133 S. W. Second Avenue, Suite 450 Portland, Oregon 97204, U.S.A.
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FOREWORD
"It's been an interesting life! I've never had occasion to regret it." These are the words of Ed Menninger. And what an understatement he made. Not only was his long life "interesting," through his book it remains a source of immeasurable pleasure, inspiration, and educational challenge to thousands throughout the world.
But for an unfortunate accident during the winter of 19141915, Ed would most probably have pursued his goal of chemistry as his life's work. While serving as an instructor in a chemistry laboratory at Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas, Ed suffered a severe injury that resulted in the loss of his right eye and his left hand. He decided to enter the field of journalism and attended Columbia University's Pulitzer School of Journalism in New York. In 1917, he accepted a job as editorial assistant at the New York Tribune and became telegraph editor at the tender age of 22.
The lure of the Florida land "boom" as the 1920s began induced him to resign his job in the summer of 1922 and move to West Palm Beach, where he worked for the Post-Times for a year before moving north 40 miles to Stuart to start a weekly newspaper. Within three years he bought the town's other newspaper, the Stuart Daily News, and expanded into commercial printing. In 1957 the newspaper was sold and he led the foundation of Southeastern Printing Company, from which he retired in 1967.
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During the 1940s Ed became seriously interested in horticulture for the first time in his life. In particular, he found the world of flowering trees fascinating. "When I first came to Florida," said Menninger, "all I saw was green!" He perceived a dearth of conspicuously flowering specimens. Although having ''never opened a botany book," Ed decided to do something about that "awful greenness." With his typical methodical approach, he obtained a listing of U.S. embassy contacts in every tropical country. Using this list to get in touch with more than 250 leading botanists and horticulturists for seed sources and information, Ed soon built a mailing list of some 500 suppliers. Using import permits by the hundreds, he soon had a backyard nursery with nearly 15,000 plants growing on a city block.
Planting the imported seeds, one species to a compartment, in empty 24-bottle soda pop cases, he stepped up the young seedlings to larger containers and sent word to garden editors throughout the area that Ed Menninger in Stuart was the fellow to see for flowering trees. Explaining his success, Ed boasted, "I had as many as 50 people at one time waiting in the yard to buy trees in one-gallon cans" at one and two dollars each.
A long-standing trademark of Ed's delivery when talking with audiences was his expressiveness and enthusiasm while reciting the vagaries and peculiarities of some of his more memorable "fantastic trees." Ed's style was one of holding audiences in an enjoyable embrace.
How fortunate are we in the ranks of tree aficionados to be able to recapture the style and enthusiasm of Dr. Edwin A. Menninger in his Fantastic Trees. This reprinting, enhanced with fine reproduction of its photographs and with a nomenclatural update, has long been anticipated. Fascinating accounts of unusual trees as described by a master story teller are now available to new generations of plant lovers. Trees with strange leaves, roots that go wild, trees of peculiar behaviorall are brought back in incomparable form by this new printing of a masterwork.
After more than 50 years of close work with horticulture in general and trees in particular, one of my most cherished associations has been that of knowing and learning from Edwin A. Menninger. Long hours spent driving here and there to tree meetings provided extracurricular "class time" with one of the finest gentlemen and tree scholars of this century. As a fortunate cofounder of the long-running Menninger Sunbelt Tree Conference (n Menninger Flowering Tree Conference), it has been my privilege to know Ed Menninger, a fantastic man who tells us about Fantastic Trees.
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