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THIS is one of the most sumptuous volumes which have ever emanated from a business house, but if it were simply a business publication it would claim no special notice in these columns. It is, in fact, a most important contribution to the history of horticulture during three-quarters of a century or more, and a valuable work of reference for the systematic botanist and the hybridist. It illustrates in a remarkable degree the service which the enterprise of a great commercial firm is capable of rendering, and in this case has rendered, to botanical science. As the author appropriately says:—
Hortus Veitchii, a History of the Rise and Progress of the Nurseries of Messrs. James Veitch and Sons, together with an Account of the Botanical Collectors and Hybridists employed by them and a List of the more Remarkable of their Introductions.
By James H. Veitch. Pp. 542; illustrated with fifty photogravure plates. (Chelsea: James Veitch and Sons, Ltd., 1906, for private circulation.)
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Hortus Veitchii, a History of the Rise and Progress of the Nurseries of Messrs James Veitch and Sons, together with an Account of the Botanical Collectors and Hybridists employed by them and a List of the more Remarkable of their Introductions . Nature 74, 537 (1906). https://doi.org/10.1038/074537a0
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