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1886–1978 England

Sir Edward James Salisbury FLS FRS CBE (16 April 1886 – 10 November 1978) was an English botanist, field naturalist, plant photographer, and ecologist. He was appointed Quain Professor of botany in 1929, awarded a Veitch Memorial Medal in 1936, and knighted in 1946.

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From the woods of north-west America came that familiar evergreen shrub Mahonia pinnata, which in some gardens to-day is almost a weed; yet such was the enthusiasm with which it was first received that roots commanded a price of ten guineas each.

The Living Garden (1935)

It was not till the middle of the nineteenth century that the rich harvest of American shrubs really began to be garnered, though the Tulip-tree (Liriodendron tulipifera) had already introduced from there in 1663.

The Living Garden (1935)

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