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Maggi Young

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George Forrest's Birthday!
« on: March 14, 2018, 03:34:52 PM »
Archivist  at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Leonie Paterson, has been tweeting against the plant hunter who is perhaps the most important to the SRGC.  It is George Forrest, who is  remembered  by the George Forrest Memorial Medal, which is awarded to the premier plant in SRGC Shows.

 Leonie  writes -" It's plant collector George Forrest's 145th birthday today 🎂 His incredible letters and photographs from China at the start of the 20th Century are held The Botanics archive."



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 A Forrest Medal
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Margaret Young in Aberdeen, North East Scotland Zone 7 -ish!

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Maggi Young

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Re: George Forrest's Birthday!
« Reply #1 on: March 14, 2018, 03:37:30 PM »
Birthday congratulations to Frazer Henderson and Ton Hannik - two forumists  who share their birthday with George  Forrest - but who are  rather younger!
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Margaret Young in Aberdeen, North East Scotland Zone 7 -ish!

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