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Thomas Moore (botanist)

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in 1851, and was also a member of the Pelargonium, Carnation, Auricula, and Dahlia Societies. He was constantly called upon to act as judge at horticultural shows, and only a short time before his death was engaged in classifying the Narcissi for the Daffodil Congress. After three or four years of
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He made a special study of ferns, most of his independent works being devoted to that group of plants; but he also acquired a knowledge of garden plants and florists' flowers generally, which was probably greater than that of any of his contemporaries. He acted as one of the secretaries of the
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in 1875. The Thomas Moore Fernery was built in 1907 on the site of his original garden and now contains a display of the varieties of ferns described and cultivated by Moore and popular during the
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Index filicum: a synopsis, with characters, of the genera, and an enumeration of the species of ferns, with synonymes, references, &c., &c
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International Flower-show in 1866, and was for many years secretary to the floral committee and floral director of the
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edited by J. Lindley, and nature-printed by II. Bradbury, fol., 1855, and in 2 vols. 8vo, 1859.
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Besides papers on ferns in various botanical journals, Moore's chief publications were :
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Moore also wrote the article 'Horticulture' in the ninth edition of the
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Nature Printed Ferns: Victorian Era British and Irish Specimens
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8vo, 1859, and also issued, with coloured illustrations by
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8vo, 1862, of which a new edition appeared in 1867 as
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with John Lindley, 2 vols. 8vo, 1866, 2nd edit. 1874.
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8vo, twenty parts, ending at the letter G, 1857-63.
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botanist
ferns
fern allies
British Isles
Society of Apothecaries
The Ferns of Great Britain and Ireland
author abbreviation
citing
botanical name
Stoke
Surrey
Robert Marnock
Regent's Park
John Lindley
Robert Fortune
pteridomania
Chelsea Physic Garden
Victorian era
Royal Horticultural Society
Linnean Society
Chelsea Botanical Garden
Brompton cemetery
William Stephen Coleman
Maxwell Masters
International Plant Names Index
 T.Moore

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