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THREE papers in recent numbers of the Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society describe the history of gardens and gardeners of the past. The gardens at Wormley Bury, Broxbourne, Herts, have been the means of introducing many new plants to the horticulture of Britain. Sir Abraham and Lady Amelia Hume introduced many species between 1785 and 1825, including several notable Amaryllids, two species of Pæonia, Rudbeckia pinnata and Humea elegans, named after the introducers. Maj or Albert Pam writes the article (66, Pt. 9, Sept., 1941), and is himself the present owner of Wormley Bury. The other two papers (66, Pts. 9 and 10, Sept. and Oct., 1941) are by the assistant secretary of the Society, and deal with the activities of William Forsyth in founding the Royal Horticultural Society. Forsyth's memory is maintained in the genus Forsythia which Vahl named in his honour, but he also experimented upon the treatment of wounded trees by covering the cut portions to exclude harmful fungi. He made useful contributions in this connexion, but clouded them so with extravagant claims that the benefit came to be largely discountenanced.
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Horticultural History. Nature 148, 749 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/148749d0
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