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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...