34 ~ Wednesday, December 10, 1997 — North Shore News

Fortune intro

From page 33

returning to England fora
brief visit, he made his second
trip to China for the company
in 1852 and stayed tor another
four years.

Tn 1858 Fortune was hired

--by the American government

te collect more tea plants with
the hope they could be intro-

north

shore news

4, FJOME & GARDEN
duced 120 species

duced into the United States.
He then returned to China on
his own in 1860 and spent
time in the region around
Beijing. It was at this time that
the United States forced the
Japanese to open their ports to
western traders, Fortune spent
several months in and around
Nagasaki and Tokyo collecting
some of our better known gar-

den plants.

After 19 vears of action-
packed foreign travel and plant
hunting, Fortune retired in
London, Walk through almost
any garden today and vou will
see many plants that Robert
Fortune introduced. He is
credited with introducing
some 120 species of plants,
many with multiple varieties.

The garden perennials include
Japanese anemones (luesione
oupehensis), bleeding hearts
( Dicentra spectabilis),
Campanula punetata, bell
flower (Matveodon grandiflo-
rum) and Primula japonica.
For garden shrubs and
flowering bushes look for

Forythia viridisima or one of

the many hybrids, the ever-
zreen bush honeysuckle
( Limicera fraqrautisima),

winter jasmine and
Rhododendron fortunei, ove of
the finest of the species. Ht is a
tall variety with a pinkish white
flower and an open form.
Many other highly rated
rhododendrons including most
of the Loder group have been
hybridized from R. fortune.
The tree peony ( Paconia
suffruticosa), Skinania
reevesiana, bridal wreath bush
(Spiraca pruuifolia “Plena”,

Weinela florida, Dentzia scabra
and snowball rree ( Viburnum
tamentosunt) were also intro-
duced by Fortune.

Two of the best vines trom
China are Clematis lanuginasa
and Wisteria sinensis “Alba’”
Both are now widely grown in
western gardens.

Fortune collected many
tree specimens such as flower-
ing almond (Prinns wiloba)
and golden larch ( Pseudolarix
amabilis) but the one that is
now coming into populanty in
the Vancouver area is the
windmill palm (Trachyearpus

fornawi).

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