jaggi

Updated: June 19, 2025

The most interesting of these facts are connected with the origin of the purple beech, which is now so universally cultivated. I take the following statements from an interesting historical essay of Prof. Jaggi. He describes three original localities. One is near the Swiss village, Buch am Irchel, and is located on the Stammberg.

Hugo de Vries - Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation

The purple beech is now exceedingly common in cultivation. But Jaggi succeeded in showing that all the plants owe their origin to the original trees mentioned above, and are, including nearly all cultivated specimens with the sole exception of the vicinity of Buch, probably derived from the trees in Thuringen.

Hugo de Vries - Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation