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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
The Veitch dynasty, originally from Scotland, owned plant nurseries
in Devon and London throughout the nineteenth century. By
commissioning several expeditions to search for new and exotic
flora for British gardens, they were instrumental in bringing many
previously unknown plants into cultivation in Britain. James
Herbert Veitch (1868 1907), who became managing director of the
firm, spent time in Germany and France studying the techniques of
horticulture, and later travelled the world himself collecting
plants for the nursery in Chelsea. This work, published in 1906,
gives a detailed account of the family business and of the men that
the firm sent to South America, Japan, China and India during the
period 1840 1906, including distinguished plant finders such as
William Lobb, his brother Thomas, who first introduced various
types of orchids from India to Britain for cultivation, and Richard
Pearce, who brought back tuberous begonias from South America.
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