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Portrait of Robert Fortune

Robert Fortune

(1953) Lawyer

22 quotes in 97 categories

Robert Fortune is a lawyer, best known for Three years' wanderings in the northern provinces of China.

Quick Facts About Robert Fortune

Born: July 4, 1953
Profession: Lawyer
Notable works: Three years' wanderings in the northern provinces of China

About Robert Fortune

Robert Fortune was a Scottish botanist, plant hunter, and traveller, best known for introducing around 250 new ornamental plants, mainly from China, but also Japan, into the gardens of Britain, Australia, and North America. He also played a role in the development of the tea industry in India in the 19th century.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Robert Fortune

As the lower parts of the Japanese houses and shops are open both before and behind, I had peeps of these pretty…

Pay

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So high do these plants stand in the favour of the Chinese gardener, that he will cultivate them extensively, even against the…

Flower

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There are about a dozen of these gardens, more or less extensive, according to the business or wealth of the proprietor; but…

Business

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When these suckers had formed roots in the open ground, or kind of nursery where they were planted, they were looked over…

Best

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We all know that any thing which retards in any way the free circulation of the sap, also prevents to a certain…

Certain

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Nature generally struggles against this treatment for a while, until her powers seem in a great measure exhausted, when she quietly yields…

Art

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The plants which stand next to dwarf trees in importance with the Chinese are certainly chrysanthemums, which they manage extremely well, perhaps…

Chinese

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Stunted varieties were generally chosen, particularly if they had the side branches opposite or regular, for much depends upon this; a one-sided…

Branches

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The Chinese, by their favourite system of dwarfing, contrive to make it, when only a foot and a half or two feet…

Chinese

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A small species of pinus was much prized, and, when dwarfed in the manner of the Chinese, fetched a very high price;…

Chinese

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No doubt these rocky islands have suggested the idea worked out in gardens, and they have been well imitated.

Doubt

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The main stem was then in most cases twisted in a zigzag form, which process checked the flow of the sap, and…

Branches

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Junipers are generally chosen for the latter purpose, as they can be more readily bent into the desired form; the eyes and…

Bent

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These gardens may be called the gardens of the respectable working classes.

Classes

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The dwarfed trees of the Chinese and Japanese have been noticed by every author who has written upon these countries, and all…

Chinese

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Sometimes, as is the case of peach and plum trees, which are often dwarfed, the plants are thrown into a flowering states,…

Flower

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The plants are principally kept in large pots arranged in rows along the sides of narrow paved walks, with the houses of…

Gardening

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This may be done by grafting, by confining the roots, withholding water, bending the branches, or in a hundred other ways which…

Done

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We are told that the first part of the process is to select the very smallest seeds from the smallest plants, which…

My own

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The tree was evidently aged, from the size of its stem. It was about six feet high, the branches came out from…

Appearance

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Nothing of the kind; they do all these things in their houses and sheds, with common charcoal fires, and a quantity of…

Doors

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One marked feature of the people, both high and low, is a love for flowers.

Flower

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