> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 21](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33259525) of TL-2 Suppl. VII > Author links: [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2423785) QID Q2423785 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Fairchild, Thomas (1667-1729), English gardener and "clothworker", born ca. Mai 1667 in Aldbourne (Wilts.), had a nursery at Hoxton where he "conducted experiments which helped to establish the existence of sex in plants" and was the "first to produce scientifically an artificial 'hybrid'" (DNB), he also received American seeds and plants from Mark Catesby, died 10 Oct 1729 in Hoxton, London. **Abbreviated name**: *T. Fairchild* #### Herbarium and types [[Collection BM|BM]] (Sloane herb.). #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 1: 524; BB p. 104; Blunt p. 134, ed. 2: 150; BM 2: 554; Bossert p. 121; Bretschneider p. 139; Clokie p. 163; Desmond p. 215, ed. 2: 239; DNB, suppl. 1: 623-624 \[reprint\], 2: 198-199, 18: 914-915; Dryander 5: 231 (index); Henrey 2: 336-340, 3: 41; HU 2: nr. 453; Portr. 3: 416; Rehder 5(index): 269; RHS 2: 279; Tucker 1: 773. #### Biofile - Berkeley, E. & D. Smith Berkeley, 1974. Dr. John Mitchell: 279. (index) - Coats, A.M., 1965. Huntia 2: 199, fig. 54. (portr.) - Coats, A.M., 1969. Plant hunters: 388. (index) - Dandy, J.E., 1958. The Sloane Herb.: 129. - Ewan, J. (ed.), 1969. Short hist. bot. U.S.: 32. - Leapman, M., 2000. The ingenious Mr Fairchild: the forgotten father of the flower garden, London (Headline): 280 p. (portrs.); 1st Amer. ed.... New York (St. Martin's Press) 2001. (n.v.) - Lyons, H.G., 1941. Notes & Rec. Roy. Soc. London 3: 80-84. - Pultney, R., 1790. Sketches Progr. Bot. England 2: 238-239. - Roberts, H.F., 1965. Plant hybrid. before Mendel: 368. (index) - Smit, P. & R.J.Ch. ter Laange (eds.), 1970. Essays in biohistory: 24. - Stevenson, A., 1961. Hunt Bot. Cat. 2(2): 76-77. - Walters, S.M., 1970. Shaping of Cambridge botany: 28. - Zirkle, C., 1932. J. Heredity 23: 435-437. #### Outside our period - (1) *The city gardener*. Containing the most experienced method of cultivating and ordering such ever-greens, fruit-trees, flowering shrubs, flowers, exotick plants &c. as will be ornamental, and thrive best in the London gardens, London (T. Woodward, and J. Peele), 70 p., frontisp., 1 lf. of pl. (fold.) 1722. Duod. *Copies*: HH, K (n.v.), NY (n.v.). - (2) Contributed to Philip Miller, *Cat. pl.*... 1730, see TL-2/3, nr. 6036.