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FORTUNE, ROBERT (1813-188o)

This article appears in Volume V10, Page 727 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: FLA-FRA
FORTUNE, ROBERT (1813-188o) , Scottish botanist and traveller, was born at Kelloe in Berwickshire on the 16th of September 1813. He was employed in the botanical
garden
  at Edinburgh, and afterwards in the Royal Horticultural Society's
garden
  at
Chiswick
 , and upon the termination of the Chinese War in 1842 was sent out by the Society to collect
plants
  in China. His travels resulted in the introduction to Europe of many beautiful
flowers
 ; but another journey, undertaken in 1848 on behalf of the
East
  India Company, had much more important consequences, occasioning the successful introduction into India of the tea-plant. In subsequent journeys he visited Formosa and Japan, described the culture of the silkworm and the manufacture of
rice
 
paper
 , and introduced many trees,shrubs and
flowers
  now generally cultivated in Europe. The incidents of his travels were related in a succession of interesting books. He died in London on the 13th of
April
  1880.


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