> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 291](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33259337) of TL-2 Suppl. V > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/20019477-1) LSID 20019477-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21510373) QID Q21510373 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Dickson, James Hill (c. 1795-1867), British nurseryman, head of the firm of James Dickson & Sons and of the Newton nurseries, Chester (Cheshire), died 28 Dec 1876. **Abbreviated name**: *J. Hill Dicks.* \[standard form in IPNI: *J.Hill Dicks.*\] #### Herbarium and types Unknown. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 1: 452; BM 1: 451; Desmond p. 185; Jackson p. 385; Kew 2: 83; PR 2225; Rehder 3: 234; Tucker 1: 202. #### Biofile - Anon., Gardn. Chron. 1868: 31. 11 Jan (obit.). ### Publications ##### n.30.315. fibre plants **Title** The *fibre plants* of *India*, Africa and our Colonies. A treatise on Rheea, Plantain, Pine Apple, Jute, Africain and China Grass, and New Zealand Flax (Phormium Tenax), and on the cultivation, preparation, and cottonizing of home-grown and continental flax and hemp fitted for spinning on the existing cotton machinery, and also on silk, warsted and flax spinning machinery, with full instructions on the method of preparing, spinning and weaving, by the patented machines and process of the author... London (William Macintosh,... Dublin: George Herbert)... \[1865\]. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Fibre pl. India*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1865, p. \[i-iii\], iv-xvi, \[1\]-380, \[i\]-xxx, \[xxxii-xxxiii, adv.\]. *Copies*: HH, NY.