WILLIAM COURT. 



WILLIAM COURT, well known during the seventies of the past 

 century as a talented propagator and cultivator of stove 

 plants, was born at Alphington, near Exeter, in 1843, and 

 commenced his gardening career in the nurseries of Messrs. 

 Lucombe & Prince, of that city. 



In 1863 he entered the Exeter branch of the Veitchian 

 firm, and shortly afterwards was transferred to Chelsea. 



A successful hybridizer of Nepenthes and Sarracenias, 

 Court raised several fine hybrids as a result of his experi- 

 ments, some of the best being Nepenthes x Mastersiana, 

 N. X intermedia, N. X Courtii, N. X rufescens, Sarracenia 

 X melanorhoda, S. X Chelsoni, S. X Courtii, and several 

 others. 



: ; ,;Co'urt made several journeys to North America, and intro- 

 duced- to that country many novelties sent home by our 



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collectors from various parts of the world. 



He died at Chelsea on September 17th 1888, after a short 

 illness, and is buried in Brompton Cemetery, where a 

 monument is erected to his memory by his American friends. 



Beferences : Gard. Chron. 1888, vol. iv. p. 338, obituary note; The Garden, 

 1888, vol. xxxiv. p. 287, obituary note. 



