preserve the quality of the specimen. Plant collecting is an ancient practice with records of a Chinese botanist collecting roses over 5000 years ago. Herbaria...

self-taught amateur botanist, and began collecting plants when he was in his twenties. The speed at which he collected plants, and his capacity to cover large...

organisation of plants into taxonomic classifications. There were many dangers involved in plant collecting expeditions, and some ended tragically. Plant hunting...

domestication. Over the course of his career he carried out over forty plant- and seed-collecting expeditions to locations all over the world. Many of these expeditions...

forwarded plant specimens to Carl Linnaeus, Dillenius, and Gronovius. He also assisted Linnaeus's student Pehr Kalm during his extended collecting trip to...

Linnean Society in 1924. Altogether, Forrest made seven trips to Yunnan, collecting samples and seeds for the Herbarium and for avid collectors willing to...

garden at The Grange in Benenden and collected plants across the world. His outstanding plant-collecting trips were to Japan in 1926 and South Africa in...

Scotland in 1797. Between 1826 and 1830 Anderson sailed on HMS Adventure, collecting seeds and dried specimens. This voyage, to the Straits of Magellan and...

Islands. Vallentin also collaborated with botanist Charles Henry Wright collecting plants for him, supplying him with field notes and illustrations, as well...

preserve rare plants introduced to Britain at that time, as well as being a fascinating historical account of Victorian plant collecting. The standard...

the Field Museum. She also traveled to Lesotho collecting and making water colour sketches of plants from 1937 to 1938. While there, she made scientifically...

family food with a small vegetable garden or orchard, to an employee in a plant nursery or the head gardener in a large estate. The garden designer is someone...

first plant hunter in 1840. Thomas' first collecting trip, inspired by the success of his brother William Lobb, was from 1843 to 1847, collecting in Java...

divisions. About 85–90% of all plants are flowering plants. Several projects are currently attempting to collect records on all plant species in online databases...

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wholesale timber merchant, county councillor and magistrate and amateur plant collector in Britain and other parts of the world. Montgomrey was born in...

Record collecting is the hobby of collecting sound recordings, usually of music, but sometimes poetry, reading, historical speeches, and ambient noises...

hobby, or profit. Fossil collecting, as practiced by amateurs, is the predecessor of modern paleontology and many still collect fossils and study fossils...

related to Plant presses. Collecting Herbarium Specimens, Botanical Research Institute of Texas Jane Mygatt (2001). "A Case for Collecting" (PDF). Iowa...

was an American amateur plant collector active in New Mexico. She discovered several plant taxa and collected some 500 plant specimens. She was born to...

to collect orchids and stove (hothouse) and greenhouse flowering plants. Pearce successfully carried out his instructions, and as well as the plants he...

Historically, insect collecting has been widespread and was in the Victorian age a very popular educational hobby. Insect collecting has left traces in...

on the plants of the eastern United States and eastern Asia, where arboretum staff and colleagues are sourcing new material on plant collecting expeditions...

Breweriana, objects associated with breweries Beer cans Knives Victoriana, collecting of materials from the Victorian era "British Matchbox Label and Booklet...

Past. Natural History. Retrieved 2010-03-31. Gazetteer of Costa Rican Plant-Collecting Locales: Diquís (or Dikís) from the website of the Missouri Botanical...

almost universally based on plants, the "garden" (which etymologically may imply a shorthand of botanical garden) may use plants sparsely or not at all. Hence...

genus of plants in the family Geraniaceae. It is named after Lady Anne Monson, 1714–76, known for her botanical knowledge and plant collecting in the Cape...

the United States List of botanical gardens in the United Kingdom Plant collecting National Public Gardens Day Botanical and horticultural library List...

century, plant-collecting fever spread throughout Europe and the United States. Many species of numerous genera were introduced, some as living plants, others...

wild plant collecting may also be a cause of this species population decline. Although the species population is declining there are a few plants placed...