Plant Hunting In China
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Plant Hunting In China
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Author : Euan Hillhouse Methven Cox
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1986
Plant Hunting In China written by Euan Hillhouse Methven Cox and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Science categories.
This is a fascinating account of the history of plant collecting in China by western botanists from the seventeenth century to the middle of the 1950s. Many of the most popular flowers in European gardens originated when early missionaries and traders brought home some of the finest forms of Chinese flora. In the modern period, the major collectors made thoroughly organized searches to secure plants that would grace European and American gardens. This edition contains a new introduction by the author's son, Peter Cox, a knowledgeable horticulturist and author of numerous articles and books on horticultural subjects. The text is complemented by photos and maps.
Plant Hunting In China
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Author : Euan Hillhouse Methven Cox
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1961
Plant Hunting In China written by Euan Hillhouse Methven Cox and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1961 with Botany categories.
Plant Hunting In Remote China
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Author : Ling nan da xue (Guangzhou, China)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1932
Plant Hunting In Remote China written by Ling nan da xue (Guangzhou, China) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1932 with Botany categories.
China Mother Of Gardens
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Author : Ernest H Wilson
language : en
Publisher: R W Strugnell
Release Date : 2017-12-02
China Mother Of Gardens written by Ernest H Wilson and has been published by R W Strugnell this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-02 with categories.
CHINA is, indeed, the Mother of Gardens, for of the countries to which our gardens are most deeply indebted she holds the foremost place. From the bursting into blossom of the Forsythias and Yulan Magnolias in the early spring to the Peonies and Roses in summer and the Chrysanthemums in the autumn, China's contributions to the floral wealth of gardens is in evidence. To China the flower lover owes the parents of the modern Rose, be they Tea or Hybrid Tea, Rambler or Polyantha; likewise his greenhouse Azaleas and Primroses, and the fruit grower, his Peaches, Oranges, Lemons and Grapefruit. It is safe to say that there is no garden in this country or in Europe that is without its Chinese representatives and these rank among the finest of tree, shrub, herb and vine. It was in 1899 that I first set foot in China, to leave it finally in 1911. Until 1905 my collecting work was done in the interests of the well known English nursery firm of Veitch, now, alas! no longer in existence; from 1906 to 1911 it was on behalf of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University. As a result of my plant hunting in China more than a thousand new plants are now established in gardens of America and Europe. The privilege and the opportunity were great and I claim only to have made full use of both. In the following pages will be found some account of my eleven years' wanderings and observations in the Flowery Kingdom. I have endeavored to give a general description of the flora and scenery of western China and of the manners and customs of the little known non-Chinese tribes inhabiting the Chino-Thibetan borderland. I saw China through the eyes of a nature lover and botanist interested in all phases of natural history. Ernest Henry Wilson Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University, February 15, 1929.
Plant Hunting In China
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1974
Plant Hunting In China written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with Botanists categories.
The Romance Of Plant Hunting
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Author : Francis Kingdon-Ward
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1933
The Romance Of Plant Hunting written by Francis Kingdon-Ward and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1933 with Botany categories.
Deals not only with species of flowers, and the types desired by the public, but also with Yunnan and its people.
Plantsman S Paradise
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Author : Roy Lancaster
language : en
Publisher: Antique Collectors Club Dist
Release Date : 2008
Plantsman S Paradise written by Roy Lancaster and has been published by Antique Collectors Club Dist this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Gardening categories.
A long awaited new edition of this classic text on the plants of china with new text and many new color photographs.
Robert Fortune
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Author : Alistair Watt
language : en
Publisher: Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
Release Date : 2017
Robert Fortune written by Alistair Watt and has been published by Royal Botanic Gardens Kew this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This is the first full biography of the great Scottish plant collector Robert Fortune, famous for working in China and Japan from 1843 until 1861. This detailed presentation of his life includes an extensive analysis of his travels, plant collections and introductions, including the first maps ever produced of his collecting itineraries in China. Watt reveals that in order for Fortune to travel into the interior of China in search of new garden plants for the (later, Royal) Horticultural Society of London he had to adopt Chinese disguise, as it had been forbidden for Europeans to leave the confines of a few coastal Treaty ports. After the successful first expedition, Fortune made four more journeys to the Far East, including China, Taiwan and Japan in search of horticultural novelties. He succeeded admirably and very many of his discoveries are garden plants today. Two of his major expeditions were made in the employ of the British East India Company to aid the introduction of the tea industry into India and another expedition was carried out to investigate a possible tea industry in the USA. It has been a commonly accepted theme that Fortune was in some way 'a tea thief' and a 'spy'; the research in this book shows a completely different story. Using much new material Watt sets out to give a full account of the man, his explorations in 19th century China and the plants that he introduced into our gardens.
China Mother Of Gardens
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Author : Ernest Henry Wilson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1971
China Mother Of Gardens written by Ernest Henry Wilson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with Science categories.
Purdom And Farrer
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Author : Alistair Watt
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-01-29
Purdom And Farrer written by Alistair Watt and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-29 with categories.
Biography, History, China, Botanical Exploration,Travel