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Notes
Alan Hamilton, “Blue blood, green fingers”, The Times (London), 23 May 1988.
Report of the Director of the Botanical Survey of India for the Year 1910-11, Calcutta: Botanical Survey of India, 1911.
D. J. Mabberley, “Wilson, Ernest Henry (1876–1930)”, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2004).
See for instance Erik Mueggler, “‘The Lapponicum Sea’: Matter, Sense, and Affect in the Botanical Exploration of Southwest China and Tibet”, Comparative Studies in Society and History 47:3 (2005), pp. 442-479; Charles Lyte, The Plant Hunters (London, Orbis, 1983); Déborah Dubald and Catarina Madruga, “Introduction. Situated Nature: Field Collecting and Local Knowledge in the Nineteenth Century”, Journal for the History of Knowledge 3:1 (2022), pp. 1-11.
Mary Louise Pratt, Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation (London, Routledge, 1992).
Lucile H. Brockway, Science and Colonial Expansion: The Role of the British Royal Botanic Gardens (New Haven, Yale University Press, 2002); Lucile H. Brockway, “Plant Science and Colonial Expansion: The Botanical Chess Game” in Jack R. Kloppenburg Jr. (ed.), Seeds and Sovereignty: The Use and Control of Plant Genetic Resources, (Durham, Duke University Press, 1988), p. 50; Zaheer Baber, “The Plants of Empire: Botanic Gardens, Colonial Power and Botanical Knowledge”, Journal of Contemporary Asia 46:4 (2016), pp. 659-679; Richard Drayton, Nature’s Government: Science, Imperial Britain, and the ‘Improvement’ of the World (New Haven, Yale University Press, 2000).
Jürgen Osterhammel, “Semi-Colonialism and Informal Empire in Twentieth-Century China: Towards a Framework of Analysis” in Wolfgang J. Mommsen and Jürgen Osterhammel (eds), Imperialism and After: Continuities and Discontinuities, (London, Allen & Unwin, 1986), pp. 290–314.
James Hevia, English Lessons: The Pedagogy of Imperialism in Nineteenth-Century China (Durham, N.C., Duke University Press, 2004); Robert Bickers, The Scramble for China: Foreign Devils in the Qing Empire (London, Allan Lane, 2011).
Augustine Henry, “Midst Chinese Forests”, The Garden: An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Gardening in All its Forms, 4 January 1902.
Fa-ti Fan, British Naturalists in Qing China: Science, Empire and Cultural Encounter (Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 2004), p. 27.
Paul A. Van Dyke, The Canton Trade: Life and Enterprise on the China Coast, 1700-1845 (Hong Kong, Hong Kong University Press, 2005).
Roy Lancaster, Travels in China: A Plantsman’s Paradise (Suffolk, Antique Collectors’ Club, 1989), p. 24.
British Library, Sladen Papers, MSS Eur. E290/6; John Anderson, A Report on the Expedition to Western Yunnan via Bhamo (Calcutta, Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, 1871).
Emil Bretschneider, History of European Botanical Discoveries in China, Vol. II (London, Sampston, Low, Marsh & Co., 1898), p. 772.
Robert Bickers, “Revisiting the Chinese Maritime Customs Service, 1854-1950”, The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 36:2 (2008); Hans van de Ven, Breaking with the Past: The Maritime Customs Service and the Global Origins of Modernity in China (New York, Columbia University Press, 2014), p. 3.
Van de Ven, Breaking with the Past.
Hans van de Ven, “Robert Hart and the Chinese Maritime Customs Service”, Modern Asian Studies 40:3 (2006), p. 548.
Fa-ti Fan, “Victorian Naturalists in China: Science and Informal Empire”, British Journal for the History of Science 36:1 (2003), pp. 1-26, p. 12.
Bretschneider, History of European Botanical Discoveries in China, p. 774; Archives of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (hereafter RBG Kew), Augustine Henry to William Thiselton Dyer, Mengsi, 16 May 1896.
RBG Kew, DC 151, Henry to Thiselton Dyer, Mengsi, 16 May 1896.
Henry to Thiselton Dyer, c/o Customs Simao, 8 June 1898, in Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information, Royal Gardens, Kew 143 (1898), p. 297.
Van de Ven, Breaking with the Past.
Fan, “Victorian Naturalists in China”.
Fa-ti Fan, British Naturalists in Qing China, p. 75.
Jim Endersby, Imperial Nature: Joseph Hooker and the Practices of Victorian Science (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2008), p. 3.
RBG Kew, Henry to Thiselton Dyer, Mengsi, 5 September 1896.
RBG Kew, Henry to Thiselton Dyer, Mengsi, 30 April 1897.
RBG Kew, Henry to H.B. Morse, Mengsi, 7 March 1896.
RBG Kew, Henry to H.B. Morse, Mengsi, 7 March 1896; emphasis in original.
RBG Kew, Henry to Thiselton Dyer, Takow, 10 July 1896.
Endersby, Joseph Hooker and the Practices of Victorian Science, p. 17.
Mark Harrison, “Science and the British Empire”, Isis 96:1 (2005), pp. 56-63.
David Wade Chambers and Richard Gillespie, “Locality in the History of Science: Colonial Science, Technoscience, and Indigenous Knowledge”, Osiris 15 (2000), pp. 221-40; Roy MacLeod, “On Visiting the ‘Moving Metropolis’: Reflections on the Architecture of Imperial Science”, Historical Records of Australian Science 5:3 (1982), pp. 1-16; James Secord, “Knowledge in Transit”, Isis 95 (2004), pp. 654-672.
Augustine Henry, Notes on Economic Botany of China (Shanghai, Presbyterian Mission Press, 1893), p. 28.
Ibid., p. 11.
Ibid., p. 26.
Ibid., p. 3.
Ibid.
Ibid.
Mabberley, “Wilson, Ernest Henry (1876–1930)”.
Wilson, A Naturalist in Western China, p. viii.
RBG Kew, Henry to Thiselton Dyer, Mengsi, 5 September 1896.
Ibid.
Henry to Thiselton Dyer, 30 April 1897, “A Budget from Yunnan”, Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information, Royal Gardens, Kew 132 (December 1897), p. 407.
Bretschneider, History of European Botanical Discoveries in China, p. 776.
Seamus O’Brien, In the Footsteps of Augustine Henry and his Chinese Plant Collectors (Woodbridge, Suffolk, Garden Art Press, 2011), p. 16.
Bretschneider, History of European Botanical Discoveries in China, p. 883.
Ibid.
RBG Kew, Henry to Thiselton Dyer, Mengsi, 5 September 1896.
Henry to Thiselton Dyer, c/o Customs Simao, 20th December 1898, in Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information, Royal Gardens, Kew 147-148 (1899), p. 49.
Endersby, Imperial Nature: Joseph Hooker and the Practices of Victorian Science.
Lorraine Daston, “Type Specimens and Scientific Memory”, Critical Enquiry 31 (2004), pp. 153-182.
Caroline Cornish and Felix Driver, “‘Specimens Distributed’: The Circulation of Objects from Kew’s Museum of Economic Botany, 1847–1914”, Journal of the History of Collections 32:2 (2020) pp. 327-340.
Lucas et al, “Colonial Pride and Metropolitan Expectations: The British Museum and Melbourne’s Meteorites”, The British Journal for the History of Science 27:1 (1994), pp. 65-87; Savithri Preetha Nair, “Science and the Politics of Colonial Collecting: The Case of Indian Meteorites, 1856–70”, The British Journal for the History of Science 39:1 (2006), pp. 97-119.
RBG Kew, Henry to Thiselton Dyer, Mengsi, 29 November 1898.
RBG Kew, Henry to Thiselton Dyer, Simao, 1 May 1899.
Diary of Annie Brunton, cited in Clara Cullen (ed.), The World Upturning: Elsie Henry’s Irish Wartime Diaries, 1913-1919 (Dublin, Merrion, 2013), p. 2.
Augustine Henry, “Midst Chinese Forests”, The Garden: An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Gardening in All its Forms, 4 January 1902.
See for instance David Arnold, The Tropics and the Travelling Gaze: India, Landscape and Science, 1800-1856 (Delhi, Permanent Black, 2005); David Arnold, “‘Illusory Riches’: Representations of the Tropical World, 1840-1950”, Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 21:1 (2000), pp. 6-18; Felix Driver and Brenda SA Yeoh, “Constructing the Tropics: Introduction”, Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 21:1 (2000), pp. 1-5; Ross G. Forman, China and the Victorian Imagination: Empires Entwined (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2013).
RBG Kew, Henry to Thiselton Dyer, Simao, 8 June 1898.
Kingdon Ward, The Romance of Plant-Hunting, p. 75.
Jennifer Regan-Lefebvre, “John Bull’s Other Vineyard: Selling Australian Wine in Nineteenth-Century Britain”, The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 45:2 (2017), pp. 259-283; Joanna de Groot, “Metropolitan Desires and Colonial Connections: Reflections on Consumption and Empire” in Catherine Hall and Sonya Rose (eds), At Home with the Empire: Metropolitan Culture and the Imperial World, (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007), pp. 166–190.
Jane Hamlett, Material Relations: Domestic Interiors and Middle-class Families in England, 1850-1910 (Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2010); Lori Anne Loeb, Consuming Angels: Advertising and Victorian Women (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1994).
George Glenny, Gardening for the Million: an Amateurs’ and Cottagers’ Guide (London, Houlston & Stoneman, 1849); Gardening for the Many: Being Practical Monthly Directions for the Cultivation, Step by Step, of each Crop in the Garden of the Amateur and Cottager (London, Cottage Gardener Office, 1854).
E. Charles Nelson, “William Robinson, (1838-1935), horticulturalist and publisher”, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004).
William Robinson, The English Flower Garden: Style, Position and Arrangement (London, John Murray, 1889), p. v; Mea Allan, William Robinson, 1838-1935: Father of the English Flower Garden (London, Faber & Faber, 1982), p. 137.
Robinson, The English Flower Garden, p. 93.
Ibid., p. xxx.
William Robinson, The Wild Garden, or, Our Groves and Shrubberies Made Beautiful by the Naturalisation of Hardy Exotic Plants (London, John Murray, 1870).
Robinson, The English Flower Garden, p. 83.
See for instance Eugenia W. Herbert, Flora’s Empire: British Gardens in India, (Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012).
Setsu Tachibana, Stephen Daniels and Charles Watkins, “Japanese Gardens in Edwardian Britain: Landscape and Transculturation”, Journal of Historical Geography 30 (2004), p. 365.
Kingdon Ward, The Romance of Plant-Hunting, p. 4.
RBG Kew, Henry to Thiselton Dyer, Simao, 19 September 1899.
E.A. Bowles, My Garden in Spring (London, T.C. & E.C. Jack, 1914), p. 19.
Vita Sackville-West, Let Us Now Praise Famous Gardens (London, Penguin, 2009), [first published 1951], p. 85.
Vita Sackville-West, Some Flowers (London, Pavilion Books, 1996), [first published 1937], p. 55.
Robinson, The English Flower Garden, p. 83.
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