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Title: Trees and shrubs, hardy in the British isles
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Bean, William Jackson, 1863-
Subjects: Shrubs Trees
Publisher: London J. Murray
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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where his botanical tastes gained for him thepatronage of Sir Wm. Hooker, by whom he was recommended to theHorticultural Society as a plant collector. He reached British Columbiain April 1825, and sent home the seeds of many species during that andthe two following years. In 1829 he again left England and reached themouth of the Columbia River in June 1830. In this region and inCalifornia he worked during the succeeding two or three years. Amongthe most notable additions Douglas made to cultivated trees were theDouglas fir, Finns insignis^ F. Lambertiana, F. monticola^ F. Sabiniana^F. ponderosa^ and F. Coulteri; Abies amabilis^ A. grafidis, and A. nobilis ;Ficea sitchensis^ Acer jnacrophyllum and A. circinatum^ Arbutus Menziesii.Among shrubs whose first sending we owe to him are Garryaelliptica^ Ribes aureu?ny R. sanguijieuin and R. speciosum^ Rubusnutkanus and R. spectabilis^ Gaultheria Shallon. Douglas came to ahorribly tragic end on 12th July 1834. He was collecting plants alone in
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Coui-Ters Pine, rmus Conlteri, 1 \,¥act p. 8 HISTORICAL NOTES 9 the Sandwich Islands when he fell into one of the pit-traps constructedby the natives to catch wild bulls, in which an animal was alreadyentrapped. He was found terribly gored and mangled and quite deada few hours later. Hitherto the foreign hardy trees and shrubs introduced had beenalmost wholly obtained from Europe and N. America. We have nowbriefly to notice a man who devoted much of his life to the introductionof plants from Japan. Philipp F. von Siebold (1796-1866) was bornat Wurzburg in Bavaria and went to Japan in 1823. In 1830 he returnedto Europe, and in collaboration with Zuccarini published his fine illus-trated work, the Flora Japonica (1835-42). In 1850 he founded a nurseryat Leyden to which he successfully introduced many trees and shrubs fromJapan and China. After his death many of his original trees were securedby the firm of Simon-Louis of Metz, in whose arboretum they may stillbe seen. As regards Chines

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