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Working first as a gardener, then landscaper and garden architect in Germany, Camillo Schneider is noted for his work in dendrology (the botanical study of woody plants, i.e. trees and shrubs) and in German garden publications. He was a plant hunter for the Arnold Arboretum in China between 1914 and 1918, where he was stranded by World War I hostilities. His herbaria from that expedition survive today at the Brooklyn Botanic Herbaria and Harvard University Herbaria (containing the Arnold Arboretum herbaria). Schneider authored an monograph on cultivated woody plants Handbuch der Laubholzkunde. He named at least one garden plant grown today, a popular cotoneaster, and his name is carried on an epiphyllum.