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Ernest Henry Wilson: The Plant Collector Who Brought the Handkerchief Tree and Regal Lily to the West
Ernest the Explorer February 15, 1876 Today is the birthday of the prolific English plant collector, gardener, botanist, and explorer Ernest Henry Wilson. When the botanist Augustine Henry met with a 22-year-old Ernest Henry Wilson, he wrote to his friend, Evelyn Gleesen, to share his impressions of Ernest after their first visit together: “He is…
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Father of Irish Commercial Forestry On this day in 1899, Augustine Henry wrote to his friend the designer Evelyn Gleeson after meeting Ernest Henry Wilson for the first time. Toward the end of his time in China, Augustine Henry living in the Simao District in the Yunnan Province of China. He knew that the flora…
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