DAVID BOWMAN. 



COLLECTOR IN BRAZIL. 



1866. 



DAVID BOWMAN was born at Arniston near Edinburgh, 

 where his father was a gardener in a small position, on 

 September 3rd 1838. 



His gardening career commenced at Arniston under the 

 father, and subsequently he went to the gardens at Dalhousie 

 Castle, Archerfield, and Dunmore Park, in Scotland, coming 

 later to England to enter the gardens of the Royal Horti- 

 cultural Society at Chiswick as foreman. 



Bowman left England early in 1866 on our behalf for 

 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, whence he sent, with other plants, 

 Dieffenbachia Bowmani, which perpetuates his name, and 

 Paullinia thalictrifolia, a pretty stove climber with beautiful 

 fern-like foliage. 



He subsequently sent home plants to the Royal Horticul- 

 tural Society, to Mr. Wilson Saunders, and other amateurs, 

 but when, having collected a large number in the vicinity of 

 Bogota, and preparing to sail for England, he suffered heavy 

 losses through robbery, and his stay had to be prolonged. 



Shortly after this Bowman contracted a violent attack of 

 dysentery, from which he died on June 25th 1868. 



He is buried in the British cemetery at Bogota. 



References : Gard. Chron. 1868, pp. 924, 942. 



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