Ernest Henry Wilson
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Ernest Henry "Chinese" Wilson, better known as E. H. Wilson, was an English plant collector and explorer who introduced a large range of about 2,000 Asian plant species to the West; some sixty bear hi
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The Regal Lily, L. regale
The Wilson stump (ウィルソン株, Wilson kabu) is at elevation 1,030m in Yakushima. The tree, Sugi, when it was cut by the Shimazu clan under order of Toyotomi Hideyoshi to build Hōkō-ji in 1586, had an estimated age of over 3,000 years. The base circumference is 32 m and 4.39 m across at chest height. The hollow is 10 tatami width and contains a small Kamidana. (Click to see the men standing in the hollow.)
The Wilson stump (ウィルソン株, Wilson kabu) seen in the distance.
The Birmingham Botanical Gardens are a 15-acre botanical garden situated in Edgbaston, Birmingham, England. The gardens are located 1+1⁄2 miles south-west of Birmingham city centre at grid reference S
Ernest Henry Wilson
…floristry business. He left school early for employment at the local nursery of Messrs. Hewitt, Warwickshire, as apprentice gardener, and, aged 16, at the Birmingham Botanical Gardens; there he also studied at Birmingham Municipal Technical School in the evenings, receiving the Queen's Prize for botany. In 1897 he began work at the…
The rose garden
The glasshouses
The bandstand by Frank Barlow Osborn
The Rock Garden and Pool