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Nineteenth-century botanists had problems in classifying Douglas-firs, due to the species ' similarity to various other conifers better known at the time ; they have at times been classified in Pinus, Picea, Abies, Tsuga, and even Sequoia.
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By 1842, a list of nine elements believed to be essential to plant growth had been compiled, and the discoveries of the German botanists Julius von Sachs and Wilhelm Knop, in the years 1859-65, resulted in a development of the technique of soilless cultivation.
He had always been an enthusiastic botanist ; his avenue at Malesherbes was world famous ; he had written against Buffon on behalf of the botanists whom Buffon had attacked, and had been elected a member of the Académie des sciences as far back as 1750.
The Wardian case was an early type of sealed protective container for plants, which found great use in the 19th Century in protecting foreign plants imported to Europe from overseas, the great majority of which had previously died from exposure during long sea journeys, frustrating the many scientific and amateur botanists of the time.
English botanists and commercial nurserymen had been passionately prospecting the world for new plants since the end of the 16th century, but these had to travel as seeds or corms, or as dry rhizomes and roots, as salty air, lack of light, lack of fresh water and lack of sufficient care often destroyed all or almost all plants even in large shipments.
He had two ships, Géographe and Naturaliste captained by Hamelin, and was accompanied by nine zoologists and botanists, including Jean Baptiste Leschenault de la Tour.
However, in 1977, a group of botanists from the University of British Columbia ( UBC ) had visited Haida Gwaii to take cuttings.
The first to discover these fictions was John Hendley Barnhart, in 1919, who identified and reprinted, with commentary, 14 biographical sketches of supposed European botanists who had come to the New World to study in Latin America.
and his work had a strong influence on later eminent botanists such as John Ray and Jean Bauhin.
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Using this legacy, Fred decided to continue the vision of an arboretum, naming it for the “ friend who had made it all possible both in life and in death .” With help from taxonomists and botanists, Fred learned by his own successes and mistakes.
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Here he cultivated many tender exotics out of doors and began botanical studies which lasted throughout his life and corresponded with the most eminent botanists in England Sir William Hooker, William Turner, James Sowerby and, especially Sir Joseph Banks, who had travelled on Captain James Cook ’ s voyages, and in charge of Kew Gardens.
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