> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 690](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33212732) of TL-2 Vol. VI > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/11108-1) LSID 11108-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6135970) QID Q6135970 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Veitch, James Herbert (1868-1907), British horticulturist and collector; son of John Gould Veitch (1839-1870), worked in the Chelsea nursery of the Veitch family from 1885; travelled around the world 1891-1893; managing director of James Veitch & Sons Ltd. 1898; sent E.H. Wilson to Tibet and China for plant collecting. **Abbreviated name**: *J.H. Veitch* \[standard form in IPNI: *J.H.Veitch*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection K|K]]; further material in [[Collection BM|BM]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 429 (d. 13 Nov 1907); BB p. 310; BM 5: 2199; Bossert p. 416; Bret. p. 767; Desmond p. 628-629 (b. 1 Mai 1868); DNB suppl. 1901-1911: 555 (G.S. Boulger); MW p. 513; Plesch p. 448; Rehder 5: 877; SK 1: 538-539, cix; Sotheby 788; TL-2/11.977; Tucker 1: 716-717; Zander ed. 11, p. 830. #### Biofile - Anon., Gard. Chron. 1907(2): 360, 160(20): 12-13. 1966; Nature 77: 86-87. 1907. - Coats, A.M., Quest for plants 229-230. 1967. - Fuller, K.A.P. & J.M. Langdon, Int. dendrol. Soc. Yearb. 1972: 63-69. 1973. - Jackson, B.D., Proc. Linn. Soc. London 120: 65-66. 1908. - Veitch, J.H., Hortus Veitchii 27, 89-91. 1906. - Wilson, E.H., Plant hunting 2: 252. 1927. ### Publications ##### n.15.972. A traveller's notes **Title** *A traveller's notes* or notes of a tour through India, Malaysia, Japan, Corea, the Australian Colonies and New Zealand during the years 1891-1893,... Chelsea (James Veitch & Sons...) 1896. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Travel. not.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1896, p. \[i-ii\], map, \[iii-iv\], \[1\]-219, \[220, colo.\], *pl. 19. Copy*: NY. – Previously published (p.p.) Gard. Chron. ser. 3. 13: 228-230, 260-262, 387, 568-570, 14: 40-42, 178-180, 298, 299, 395, 427-428, 461-462, 556-557, 715-716. 1893. ##### n.15.973. Some lesser-known Japan trees and shrubs **Title** *Some lesser-known Japan trees and shrubs* and some recently introduced trees and shrubs from Central China... Reprinted from the Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society... \[London\] 1903. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1903, cover-t.p., p. \[1\]-50. *Copy*: HH. Reprinted and to be cited from J.R. Hort. Soc., London 27: 857-875. – Republished in part in Garden 64: 167-168, 183-184, 201-202, 220. 1930. ##### n.15.974. Hortus Veitchii **Title** *Hortus Veitchii* a history of the rise and progress of the nurseries of Messrs James Veitch and sons, together with an account of the botanical collectors and hybridists employed by them and a list of the most remarkable of their introductions... illustrated with fifty photogravure plates. London (James Veitch & Sons Limited, Chelsea) 1906. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Hort. Veitch.* **Notes** *Issue* \[*1*\]: 1906 (TBC 13 Jun 1906; NY rd. Jun 1906), p. \[ii\], \[1\], frontisp., \[3\]-542, \[543 colo.\], *50 pl. Copies*: FAS, G. – Special edition, not commercially available. *Issue* \[*2*\]: 1906 (Nat. Nov. Apr(1) 1907), p. \[1-2\], front., \[3\]-542, \[543, colo.\], *30 pl*. *Copies*: BR, HH, NY. – "With fifty illustrations" \[sic: only difference on t.p.\]. – Regular issue.