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There are about a dozen of these gardens, more or less extensive, according to the business or wealth of the proprietor but they are generally smaller than the smallest of our London nurseries.
Robert Fortune
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Robert Fortune
Age: 66 †
Born: 1813
Born: September 16
Died: 1880
Died: April 13
Botanist
County of Berwick
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