Eucalyptus Cultivation - by Edmundo Navarro de Andrade

Navarro de Andrade's Classical Works, Digitalized!

Do you remember Eucalyptus Paulistana, the Brazilian Giant? If Eucalyptus do exist today as a worldwide commercial timber crop, it is to a great extent thanks to the successful efforts of Edmundo Navarro de Andrade. Pioneer of their silviculture and industrial use, his magnificent work left many footprints. Among them, some of the first books on practical eucalypt cultivation. These classics, scarce and rare books today, have been digitalized thanks to the efforts of Celso Foelkel (ABTCP) and Luiz Ernesto George Barrichelo (IPEF) as a memorial to Navarro on the 100th anniversary of his first book. From Eucalyptologics we will also be sharing them with you, in several installments. Today, Edmundo's first work, "Eucalyptus Cultivation" in its first (1909) and second edition (1918).

Edmundo Navarro de Andrade (1909). A cultura dos Eucalyptus

Typographia Brazil de Rothschild & Comp.154 pp.

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Edmundo Navarro de Andrade & Octavio Vecchi (1918). Os Eucalyptus: súa Cultura e Exploraçao

Typographia Brazil de Rothschild & Comp. 238 pp.

[Download PDF - 62.0 MB - Digitalization courtesy Celso Foelkel & L.E.G. Barrichelo]

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New book: The Eucalyptus Planter Edmundo Navarro de Andrade - by Augusto Martini

New Book on the Early History of Eucalyptus Cultivation in Brazil

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"Edmundo Navarro de Andrade: The Eucalyptus Planter... and Forest Preservation in Brazil"

by Augusto Martini

[Available in Portuguese version]

Seeking to rescue the historical, documental and scientific memory of Edmundo Navarro de Andrade (1), agronomist hired by the Paulista Railway Company of Sao Paulo in 1904 to work out the most suitable tree species to supply charcoal to its locomotives and timber sleepers to its rail lines, Augusto Jeronimo Martini (2) introduces you to a wonderful piece of research work.

"Currently the Edmundo Navarro de Andrade State Forest keeps one of the largest collection of eucalypt species in South America, making of it the birthplace and a landmark for anyone interested in the research and cultivation of these trees in Brazil".

The works of Navarro de Andrade set the scenario for the first successful example of large scale industrial Eucalyptus cultivation, starting a thread that would be repeated or attempted during the 20th century in more than 95 countries around the world.

• 1 = Edmundo Navarro de Andrade (Sao Paulo, 1881-1941) graduated from the Agronomy School of Coimbra (Portugal) in 1903 and back home was hired by Paulista Railways to establish its first timber tree orchard at Jundiaí. He achieved several public servant positions related to agriculture, was part of many Study Commissions involving agricultural missions overseas, travelling around the world on behalf of the Federal Government of Brazil and the Government of the State of Sao Paulo. He published several works, mostly on subjects related to Eucalyptus cultivation.
• 2 = Augusto Jeronimo Martini is a BSc in Geography, UNESP - Río Claro; MSc in Social History, USP; and is undertaking his PhD in Social Story by the USP.

Novo Livro sobre a Eucaliptocultura no Brasil

O livro Edmundo Navarro de Andrade – o plantador de eucaliptos e a questão da preservação florestal no Brasil de Augusto Jeronimo Martini, busca resgatar a memória histórica, documental e científica de Edmundo Navarro de Andrade, cientista contratado pela Companhia Paulista de Estradas de Ferro do Estado de São Paulo, em 1904, para encontrar a espécie florestal que mais bem se prestaria ao fornecimento de carvão para as locomotivas e madeira para os dormentes das ferrovias.

"Atualmente, a Floresta Estadual Edmundo Navarro de Andrade possui a maior variedade de espécies de eucalipto do Brasil, o que a torna referência no cultivo e pesquisa da planta e a faz conhecida como berço do eucalipto", destaca o autor.

Augusto Jeronimo Martini possui graduação em Geografia, pelo Instituto de Geociências e Ciências Exatas da Unesp de Rio Claro, e mestrado em História Social pela USP. Atualmente é doutorando em História Social pela USP.

Edmundo Navarro de Andrade (São Paulo, 02/01/1881 – 01/12/1941). Estudou na Escola Nacional de Agricultura de Coimbra (Portugal), onde se diplomou em 1903. De regresso ao Brasil, foi encarregado pela Companhia Paulista de Estradas de Ferro de organizar o seu primeiro horto florestal, em Jundiaí. Ocupou vários cargos públicos na área agrícola, participando de muitas comissões de estudos no exterior em missão dos governos Federal e de São Paulo, e também da Companhia Paulista de Estradas de Ferro, tendo percorrido, em longas viagens, grande parte do mundo. Publicou vários títulos, a maioria deles sobre a cultura do eucalipto.

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