Hortus Veitchii

Hortus Veitchii

Hortus Veitchii Centenary Facsimile Reprint 2006
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Hortus Veitchii Facsimile Reprint
Centenary Edition

Hortus Veitchii is an important botanical work of reference containing details of over 1,500 plants introduced by the nurseries of James Veitch & Sons including information on the plant hunters who found them, where they were found and many other important details. In addition, this book chronicles the details of many of their plant collectors as well as the early hybridization work carried out by their pioneering staff.

Hortus Veitchii is an essential reference for plants introduced during the Victorian era, listing many which are still available from nurseries today and therefore helping gardeners to accurately replicate historic gardens within that period. This is also important for those wishing to preserve rare plants introduced to Britain at that time, as well as being a facsinating historical account of Victorian plant collecting.

This facsimile hardback edition of Hortus Veitchii has been reprinted to mark the centenary of its original publication and is limited to 1000 numbered copies. It has been republished with the objective that profits generated can be used to establish a permanent collection of plants introduced by the Veitch Nurseries. This will contain many plants which are now rare or endangered in the wild as well as many varieties well known to modern gardeners.

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Hortus Veitchii Book Review in BBC Gardens Illustrated published by the BBC,or click here to go the BBC Gardens Illustrated website. Kindly reproduced with permission from Gardens Illustrated.

Hortus Veitchii article by Alan Titchmarsh which was published in The Daily Express on December 8th 2007. Click here to read this article on buying books on Alan Titchmarsh's website.

Hortus Veitchii Article in The Express & Echo published in the Express & Echo on 23rd September 2006, or click here to go the Express and Echo website. Kindly reproduced with permission from the Express & Echo.

Presentation to Lord Mayor of Exeter. Copyright © David Smithson The Lord Mayor of Exeter, Councillor Norman Sheil receiving a copy of Hortus Veitchii on behalf of the City of Exeter on Wednesday 30th August 2006 from Caradoc Doy.
Photograph copyright David Smithson.

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Hortus Veitchii Spine & Cover
Jacket for Hortus Veitchii, scanned from an original, rare, surviving cover.