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Floristic Legacy of English-Style Landscape Gardens and the Use of Imported Grass Seed for Sowing under Trees

Tyler, Torbjörn LU (2024) In Bulletin för trädgårdshistorisk forskning p.13-15
Abstract
During WWII, the botanist Hylander (1943, 1949) studied the floristic composition of lawns in 249 landscape gardens mostly in Sweden and concluded that they all harboured multiple, but largely the same, non-native species and genotypes that had most likely been introduced together by the sowing of some im- ported grass seed mix. As demonstrated by the later additions by, for example, Ohlsén (1947) and me (Tyler 2004, 2017), it can be concluded that the seed mix(es) for lawns in these lands- cape gardens contained more than 200 different plant taxa. Since the pioneering studies by Hylander, many additional sites with similar species compositions have been found.
Abstract (Swedish)
During WWII, the botanist Hylander (1943, 1949) studied the floristic composition of lawns in 249 landscape gardens mostly in Sweden and concluded that they all harboured multiple, but largely the same, non-native species and genotypes that had most likely been introduced together by the sowing of some im- ported grass seed mix. As demonstrated by the later additions by, for example, Ohlsén (1947) and me (Tyler 2004, 2017), it can be concluded that the seed mix(es) for lawns in these lands- cape gardens contained more than 200 different plant taxa. Since the pioneering studies by Hylander, many additional sites with similar species compositions have been found.
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  abstract     = {{During WWII, the botanist Hylander (1943, 1949) studied the floristic composition of lawns in 249 landscape gardens mostly in Sweden and concluded that they all harboured multiple, but largely the same, non-native species and genotypes that had most likely been introduced together by the sowing of some im- ported grass seed mix. As demonstrated by the later additions by, for example, Ohlsén (1947) and me (Tyler 2004, 2017), it can be concluded that the seed mix(es) for lawns in these lands- cape gardens contained more than 200 different plant taxa. Since the pioneering studies by Hylander, many additional sites with similar species compositions have been found.}},
  author       = {{Tyler, Torbjörn}},
  issn         = {{1652-2362}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  number       = {{37}},
  pages        = {{13--15}},
  series       = {{Bulletin för trädgårdshistorisk forskning}},
  title        = {{Floristic Legacy of English-Style Landscape Gardens and the Use of Imported Grass Seed for Sowing under Trees}},
  url          = {{https://gardenhistoryforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Bulletin-for-tradgardshistoriskt-forskning-nr-37-2024.pdf}},
  year         = {{2024}},
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