> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 650](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33190121) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/8242-1) LSID 8242-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q68949) QID Q68949 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Rehder, Alfred (1863-1949), German (Saxony)-born botanist, dendrologist and gardener; at the Zwickau Gymnasium 1876-1881; apprentice to his father, Paul Julius Rehder, director of the park in Waldenburg, Saxony, 1881-1884; studied in Berlin 1884-1886, worked at Frankfurt a.M. and Muskau 1886-1888; head gardener at Darmstadt 1888-1889; id. at Göttingen 1889-1895; associate editor of Möller's Gärtner-Zeitung 1895-1898; to the United States 1898; assistant at the Arnold Arboretum, Jamaica Plain, Mass. 1898-1918; curator of the herbarium ib. 1918-1940; associate professor of dendrology at Harvard University 1934-1940; emeritus professor ib. 1940-1949. **Abbreviated name**: *Rehd.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Rehder*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection A|A]]; further material at [[Collection B|B]], [[Collection C|C]], [[Collection DPU|DPU]], [[Collection GH|GH]], [[Collection NY|NY]], [[Collection US|US]]. – Archival material at [[Collection FH|FH]], [[Collection HH (sensu TL-2)|HH]] and SIA. #### Bibliography and biography AG 4: 358, 5(3): 65; Backer p. 659; Barnhart 3: 138 (b. 4 Sep 1863); BFM 2347, 3012, 3269; BJI 2: 143; BL 1: 4, 121, 314, 2: 707 (index); Biol.-Dokum. 14: 7356-7357; Bossert p. 328 (d. 21 Jul 1949); CSP 18: 101; Ewan (ed. 1): 288, (ed. 2): 181; GR p. 123; Hirsch p. 244; Hortus 3: 1202; IH 1 (ed. 3): 78; Kew 4: 437-438; Langman p. 618; Lenley p. 341; MW p. 408-410, suppl. p. 291-292; NI 1: 256; NW p. 56; PH 450; Rehder 5: 712-713; SIA 221, 223, 226; SIA-HI 107; SO 3698; Tucker 1: 588; Urban-Berl. p. 386; Zander ed. 10, p. 706, ed. 11, p. 805. #### Biofile - Anthony, S.W., J. Forestry 48: 338. 1950 (brief obit.). - Boerner, F., Ber. deut. bot. Ges. 68a: 164-166. 1955 (obit.). - Bijhouwer, J.T.P., Jaarb. Ned. Dendrol. Ver. 17: 23-24. 1950 (obit., portr.). - Cattell, J.M., Amer. men Sci. ed. 2: 387. 1910, ed. 3: 565-566. 1921, ed. 4: 806. 1927, ed. 5: 920. 1933, ed. 6: 1165. 1938, ed. 7: 1456. 1944. - Ewan, J. et al., Short hist. bot. U.S. 136. 1969. - Faull, J.H. & C.E. Kobuski, J. Arnold Arb. 21(4): i, portr., 1940 (note on R's retirement on 31 August 1940). - Fletcher, H.R., Story R. Hort. Soc. 344, 348. 1969. - Kobuski, C.E., J. Arnold Arb. 31(1): 1-38. 1950 (obit., eponymy, bibl. by Anneliese Rehder). - Leroy, J.F. et al., Bot. franç. Amér. nord 257, 258, 259. 1957. - Merrill, E.D., Enum. Philipp. pl. 4: 220. 1926. - Pease, A.S., Fl. N. New Hampshire 37. 1964. - Rehder, G., Arnoldia 32(4): 141-156. 1972 (mainly on Jacob Heinrich Rehder, grandfather of A. Rehder and gardener in charge of developing the park in Muskau (Saxony) and on Paul Julius Rehder, Alfred's father and on the latter's youth in Germany; "the making of a botanist"). - Rodgers, A.D., Liberty Hyde Bailey 247, 295, 433, 485. 1949. - Rollins, R.C., Taxon 1: 3-4. 1951 (obit., d. 21 Jul 1949). - Schneider, C., Bot. Jahrb. 74: 633. 1949 (obit.). - Shepler, D., The Boston Herald, Sunday 26 Mai 1935 (portr., biogr. sketch). - Sutton, S.B., Charles Sprague Sargent 379 \[index\] 1970. - Veendorp, H. & L.G.M. Baas-Becking, Hort. acad. lugd.-bot. 216 \[index\]. 1938. - Venema, J.H. & J.T.P. Bijhouwer, Jaarb. Ned. Dendrol. Ver. 17: 23-24. 1949 (portr.). - Verdoorn, F., ed., Chron. bot. 1: 164, 167, 298, 314. 1935, 2: 34, 35, 53, 185, 318, 330, 373. 1936, 3: 27, 294. 1937, 4: 37, 557, 561. 1938, 5: 299, 302, 371. 1941, 6: 70, 166. 1941. #### Composite works - (1) Founder of the *Journal of the Arnold Arboretum*, editor of vols. 1-21, 1919-1940. - (2) For contributions to L.H. Bailey, *Cycl. Am. Hort.* and *Stand. Cycl. Hort.* see J. Arnold Arb. 31: 17-32. 1950. - (3) For contributions to C.S. Sargent, *Trees and Shrubs*, see J. Arnold Arb. 31: 24-26. 1950. #### Eponymy *Rehdera* Moldenke (1935); *Rehderodendron* Hsu-Hu (1932); *Rehderophoenix* Burret (1936). ### Publications ##### n.8814. Synopsis of the genus Lonicera **Title** *Synopsis of the genus Lonicera*... (from the fourteenth Annual Report of the Missouri Botanical Garden) 1903. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 8 Oct 1903 (date on cover reprint), cover (with above title), p. 27-232, *pl. 1-20* (1-4 uncol. auct.; 5-20 phot.). *Copies*: BR, G, MICH(2), NY, US. *Ref*.: Buchenau, F.G.P., Bot. Zeit. 62(2): 59-61. 1904 (rev.). ##### n.8815. The Bradley bibliography **Title** Publication of the Arnold Arboretum, No. 3. *The Bradley bibliography* a guide to the literature of the woody plants of the world published before the beginning of the twentieth century compiled at the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University under the direction of Charles Sprague Sargent by Alfred Rehder... Cambridge (printed at the Riverside Press) 1911-1918, 5 vols. (*Bradley bibl.*) ("Rehder" in TL-2). **Notes** *1*: 1911 (Nat. Nov. Nov(1) 1911), p. \[i\]-xii, \[xiii-xiv\], \[1\]-566. *2*: 1912 (Nat. Nov. Jan(1) 1913), p. \[i\]-vi, \[vii-viii\], \[1\]-926. *3*: 1915, p. \[i\]-x, \[xi-xii\], \[1\]-806. *4*: 1914, p. \[i\]-xiii, \[xv-xvi\], \[1\]-589. *5*: 1918, p. \[i\]-xxxii, \[1\]-1008. *Copies*: BR, FAS, G, NY, USDA. *Facsimile reprint*: 1976, as original, Koenigstein-Ts. (Otto Koeltz...) 1976. ISBN 3-87429-106-5 (-107-3, 108-1, 109-x, 110-3). *Copy*: FAS. – See Taxon 25: 657. 1976, 26: 125. 1977. ##### n.8816. A monograph of Azaleas **Title** Publications of the Arnold Arboretum, no. 9. *A monograph of Azaleas* Rhododendron subgenus Anthodendron... printed from the income of the William L. Bradley Fund by the University Press Cambridge 1921. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Monogr. Azaleas*. **Notes** *Senior author*: Ernest Henry Wilson (1876-1930). *Publ*.: 15 Apr 1921 (t.p.), p. \[i-ix\], 1-219. *Copies*: BR, G, US, USDA. ##### n.8817. Manual of cultivated trees and shrubs **Title** *Manual of cultivated trees and shrubs* hardy in North America exclusive of the subtropical and warmer temperate regions... New York (The Macmillan Company) 1927. 16-mo. **Abbreviated title**: *Man. cult. trees*. **Notes** *Ed. 1*: Jan 1927 (p. xvi: Sep 1926; p. ii: Jan 1927; US rd. 2 Mai 1927), p. \[i\]-xxxvii, 1-930. *Copies*: BR, MICH, MO(2), NY, U, US. *Corrections and emendations*: 1935 (p. \[ii\]: Feb 1935), p. \[i-ii\], \[1\]-19. *Copies*: MO, NY, USDA. – Jamaica Plain, Mass. 1935. *Reissue ed. 1*: Sep 1934, p. \[i\]-xxxvii, 1-930. *Copy*: U. *Reprint ed. 1*: Oct 1937, p. \[i-xxxvii\], 1-930. *Copy*: USDA. *Ed. 2*: 1940, frontisp., p. \[i\]-xxx, 1-996. *Copies*: MO, NY, PH, USDA. *Ed. 2*, fifth printing: 1951, id. *Copy*: BR. *Ed. 2*, seventh printing: 1956, id. *Copy*: US. *Ed. 2*, eleventh printing: 1967, id. *Copy*: USDA. *Ref*.: Hastings, G.T., Torreya 40: 170-171. 3 Oct 1940 (rev. ed. 2). - Rendle, A.B., J. Bot 65: 234-235. 1927 (rev. ed. 1). - Taylor, N., Torreya 27: 36-37. 1927 (rev. ed. 1). ##### n.8818. Amendments to the International rules of nomenclature **Title** *Amendments to the International rules of nomenclature*, ed. 3... Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University \[Jamaica Plains, Mass., 1934\]. **Abbreviated title**: *Amendm. Int. rules nomencl.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 10 Dec 1934 (p. \[4\]), p. \[1-4\]. *Copy*: FAS, U. ##### n.8819. Bibliography of cultivated trees and shrubs **Title** *Bibliography of cultivated trees and shrubs* hardy in the cooler temperate of the northern hemisphere... Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, U.S.A. (The Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University) 1949. **Abbreviated title**: *Bibl. cult. trees*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1949, p. \[i\]-xl, \[1\]-825. *Copies*: BR, G, MO, NY, PH. *Facsimile ed*.: 1978, Koenigstein/Ts. (Otto Koeltz...), ISBN 3-87429-128-6. *Copy*: FAS. –see J.A. Leussink, Taxon 27: 424. 1978.