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Cycas rumphii
... German-born Dutch naturalist Rumphius (Georg Eberhard Rumpf, 1628-1702), military officer with the Dutch East India Company in Ambon, 1652-1657, then with the civil merchant service of the Dutch East India Company. ... Peekel 1984, Hill 1994. Historical notes: Although first legitimately described in 1839 by Dutch botanist Miquel, the existence of a distinct Malesian taxon was first recognised ...
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Brooklyn Botanic Garden: Cape Cowslips (Lachenalia species)—Diverse and Adaptable South African Beauties
... prized Lachenalia for centuries. Descriptions date back to the earliest plant-collecting exploits of the Dutch East India Company, circa 1650. Initially called Hyacinthus (and by other epithets, too, since these were the days ...
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Rose Gardening - History of the Rose Garden -The Helpful Gardener
... . Then in 1781 the Dutch East India Company brought back a China rose named ‘Old Blush’ and the race was on. Over the next decade the Dutch and British East India Companies brought back dozens of ...
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CSSA Newsletters #19
... ). 8. c. Heinrich Oldenland - a Dane physician & botanist; master gardener & superintendent of the Dutch East India Company garden in Cape Town, South Africa; used pre-Linnaeus botanical plant names in ... Haworthia marginata. Jan Commelin was a spice merchant, pharmacist & botanist & was commisar of Dutch East India Company; wrote a couple of books. Johann Dillenius was a German botanist and ...
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SinLur Gardens: Hosta sieboldiana 'Frances Williams'
... had collected over time during his long stint as a physician in Nagasaki for the Dutch East India Company. The cultivar is named for Mrs. Frances Ropes Williams (1883-1969) of Winchester Massachusetts, who ...
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Aloe succotrina
... early, this aloe does not appear on the famous list of aloes cultivated in the Dutch East India Company's garden in 1695, drawn up by Oldenland, the superintendent at the time. Plants of ... Cape folded mountains. It is distributed from the Cape Peninsula to Mossel Bay in the east. Its habitat is sheer cliff faces, rocky screes and outcrops where it is protected from ...
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Cliffortia ferruginea
... and historical aspects The genus name honours George Clifford, a rich Anglo-Dutch financier and a Director of the Dutch East India Company who was also a keen horticulturist. In Amsterdam , Linnaeus stayed with Clifford ...
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The Beaver
... , Ohio, and was succeeded by Welapachiken (Captain Johnny). Tamaqua, town ("borough"), in Schuylkill county, in east-central Pennsylvania, U.S., on the Little Schuylkill River. The area was settled in 1799 ... , founded in 1624 at Fort Orange (now Albany) by the Dutch West India Company, was but one element in a wider program of Dutch expansion in the first half of the 17th century. The ...
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Chapter 3: Trachycarpus key
... Fortune, it would seem, had a much higher profile than the Dutch growers who sent it across the Channel. He had seen ... for 'logistical support' we were allowed up there again, in the company of a Chinese professor and an interpreter. Finally, we found ... tiny, heavily altered location in the Sikkim Himalayas in north-east India, which is immediately threatened by destruction, it has only recently ...
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Open Directory - Business: Food and Related Products: Beverages: Tea
... Dutch suppliers of Indian teas. Products, recipes, tips and contact details. Golden Tips Tea Company Pvt. Ltd. - Offers information about the company ... India. Company profile, extensive product information including tea processing and harvesting, and contact details. Tea Gallery Trading Company - ... Middle East; supplying black and green teas, bulk or packs. Wissotzky's Tea - Israeli tea company, ...
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