Seeds of Fortune
Original title: Seeds of fortune
earliest edition we have, 2003 Bloomsbury USA, 2003 hardcover 320 pages
"In 1768, when a Scotsman named John Veitch went to England to find his fortune, he took a position as a gardener for the aristocracy. Realizing that horticultural mania was spreading furiously, Veitch and his wife opened a nursery and began to send the first commercial plant collectors to North and South America, Australia, India, Japan, China, and the South Seas. These plant collectors were among the first Westerne...
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