INTRODUCTION 



Sobralia dichotoma. Tropseolum speciosum. 



Sonerila margaritacea. Vanda cserulea. 

 Telipogon obovatus. suavis. 



Thuya gigantea. tricolor. 



Torreya myristica. Veronica salicifolia. 



Tropseolum azureum. Viola lutea. 



Lobbii. Wellingtonia gigantea. 



Smithanum. Whitlavia speciosa." 



The son of Mr. James Veitch, Mr. James Veitch junior, 

 conducted the nursery at Chelsea for some years, and created 

 that at Coombe Wood. In reference to his death, the Gar- 

 deners' Chronicle contains the following notice in the issue of 

 September 18th 1869:- 



" In the person of Mr. Veitch, whose sudden death it was 

 last week our melancholy duty briefly to announce, we have 

 lost another of the horticultural notabilities of the last two 

 decades ; and though placed in a somewhat different sphere of 

 action from such men as Lindley, Paxton, or Thompson, for 

 example, it will be found that James Veitch the younger, as 

 he was till quite recently best known, has left his mark upon 

 the garden history of our time. 



"James Veitch was born on May 24th 1815, in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Exeter, where his grandfather (of Scotch ex- 

 traction) and his father were at that time carrying on the 

 business as nurserymen. When about eighteen years of age he 

 was sent to London for two years for the purpose of acquiring 

 that experience which in those days could only be gained in a 

 London establishment. One year of this period was passed in 

 the nursery of Mr. Chandler of Vauxhall, and the other in 

 that of Messrs. Rollisson of Tooting. Returning again to 

 Exeter, and resuming his routine of duties there, he at the 

 same time, impelled by the new ideas and impulses acquired 

 in London, devoted his energies to the gradual extension and 

 improvement of the establishment at Mount Radford, making 



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