One marked feature of the people, both high and low, is a love for flowers.The Tea Countries of China, p. 112, 1852
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Robert Fortune (1812-1880) was a Scottish botanist and plant hunter, best known for his role in the introduction of tea cultivation to India. Employed by the British East India Company, he traveled to China in the 1840s to gather tea plants and seeds, which significantly contributed to the development of the tea industry in British India. Fortune's expeditions and studies in botany also extended to a wide array of other plants, making him a prominent figure in the field of horticulture.
1812–1880·lived 67 years
One marked feature of the people, both high and low, is a love for flowers.The Tea Countries of China, p. 112, 1852
Sometimes, as is the case of peach and plum trees, which are often dwarfed, the plants are thrown into a flowering states, and then, as they flower freely year after year, they have little inclination to make vigorous growth.Two visits to the tea countries of China and the british tea plantations in the Himalaya
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