Hortus Veitchii
A History of the Rise and Progress of the Nurseries of Messrs James Veitch and Sons

This 1906 work is an account of the Veitch dynasty, who brought many previously unknown plants into cultivation in Britain.

James Herbert Veitch (Author)

9781108037365, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 9 October 2011

640 pages, 50 b/w illus.
24.4 x 17 x 3.3 cm, 1.01 kg

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.

Preface
Introduction
Family tree
List of illustrations
List of references
List of travellers
Lives of travellers
List of hybridists
Lives of hybridists
Orchid species
Orchid hybrids
Stove and greenhouse plants
Insectivorus plants
Exotic ferns
Coniferous trees
Trees and shrubs - deciduous and climbing plants
Trees and shurbs - evergreen and climbing plants
Herbaceous plants
Bulbous plants
Begonias
Hippeastrums
Orchid hybridization
Nepenthes
Greenhouse rhododendrons
Streptocarpus
Fruits
Vegetables
Index.

Subject Areas: Botany & plant sciences [PST]