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Radford, Exeter, and thus founded the celebrated Exeter Nursery. It was 
to the son of Mr. James Veitch, long known as James Veitch, junr., that 
the development of the Orchid business was. due. The latter was born at 
Exeter, in May, 1815, and when about eighteen years of age he was sent 
for two years to London for the purpose of acquiring experience, and one of 
these was passed in the Nursery of Messrs. Rollisson, of Tooting, a firm 
famous in the past for its Orchid business. It was on his return to Exeter 
from Tooting that young Veitch, taking with him a collection of the Orchid 
genus of those days, commenced the culture of those favourite plants, a 
taste which he always cultivated with the greatest possible zest, and which 
came in time to be ministered to by the introductions of his own collectors, 
and by his intimate personal friendship with men like Mr. G. Ure-Skinner 
and Colonel Benson, who had .made acquaintance with Orchids in their 
native homes. 
The Orchids purchased from Messrs. Rollisson became the nucleus of the 
collection for which Messrs. Veitch have for so long been renowned, but 
Mr. Veitch soon began to import on his own account. In 1840 he sent 
William Lobb, a promising young gardener who had been in his nursery, 
to Brazil, where on landing he proceeded to the Organ Mountains, and met 
with several beautiful and notable Orchids at that time extremely rare 
in English gardens, a consignment of which, with other South Brazilian 
Orchids, were transmitted to Exeter. Lobb afterwards went to Chili, 
Peru, and elsewhere, successfully introducing many plants which are 
outside our sphere, but the introduction of four notable Orchids has been 
attributed to him, namely Cyenoches pentadactylon, Houlletia Brockle- 
hurstiana, Oncidium curtum, and Cypripedium caudatum, the three former 
from Brazil, the last from Peru. 
About three years after William Lobb left for Brazil his brother, 
Thomas Lobb, left for Singapore, afterwards proceeding to Java, where he 
successfully introduced the beautiful Phalznopsis grandiflora, afterwards 
found to be the original P. amabilis, Blume—and now often grown under 
the later name of P. Rimestadiana. Afterwards he went to the Khasia 
Hills, Assam, and other parts of North-east India, Moulmein, Lower 
Burma, North Borneo, and the Philippine Islands, introducing a remark- 
able series of Orchids and other plants, and also collecting a large number 
of dried specimens, now preserved at Kew and elsewhere. Among his 
successful introductions we may mention Vanda ccerulea, tricolor and 
suavis, Dendrobium tortile, cretaceum, albosanguineum, and D. 
macrophyllum var. Veitchianum, Cypripedium villosum and javanicum, 
Coelogyne speciosa, Schilleriana, and lentiginosa, Pleione maculata, 
lagenaria, and humilis, Aérides Fieldingii and A. multiflorum var Lobbii, 
Arachnanthe Lowii, Bulbophyllum Lobbii, Calanthe rosea, Cymbidium 
