Tag Archives: Robert Fortune

Economic Botany

Posted on July 21, 2014 by Cambridge Library Collection

As a major new series begins on BBC Radio 4, we look at the CLC books on ‘plants which changed the world’. The BBC is beginning today a major series, ‘Plants: From Roots to Riches’ on BBC Radio 4, weekdays … Continue reading →

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Another Three Seconds Of Fame

Posted on April 10, 2013 by Cambridge Library Collection

Did you just see Victoria Wood on BBC 1, rafting down a river in China and reading from our reissue of Robert Fortune‘s Journey to the Tea Countries of China? (I know it was ours because the BBC asked our … Continue reading →

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A Fortune in the Tea-Leaves

Posted on August 29, 2012 by Cambridge Library Collection

It is a truth universally acknowledged (at least by gardeners of my acquaintance) that Euonymus fortunei and its various cultivars have got to be the most boring plants ever to blight the landscape. (Even the thought of the coyly named … Continue reading →

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