The Treatise on Willows and Osiers is an original, learned and penetrating work, a real chain of saliciculture knowledge, carried out with sagacity, rigor and erudition.
The first volume reveals to us the best-informed botanical notions on willows today, through an organized, elegant and complete work, accompanied by numerous relevant illustrations.
In particular, Daniel Wittig reveals to us the universe of willows seen from the angle of botany, on a macroscopic and microscopic scale, through an analytical and prospective look, concerned with relevance, precision and accuracy. This willow enthusiast, biologist and botanist in heart and mind, has known the particular domain of the genus Salix for more than half a century.
A second complementary volume, dealing with type and hybrid species, varieties and cultivars cultivated for various purposes, is in preparation.
L.C.