Sir James Justice (1698–1763) was a Scottish horticulturalist/gardener. His works on gardening, such as The Scots Gardiner and The British Gardener, were distributed in much of Britain and Ireland. He reportedly had a passion for botanical experiments, which he pursued at the expense of his finances and family.[1] His divorce and expulsion from the Fellowship in the Royal Society has been blamed on the expenses he put into greenhouses and soil mixtures. He is nevertheless a noted figure in Scottish gardening with a claim to be the father of it.[2] He had a son from his second marriage.[3] The genus Justicia is named for him.[4]
References
edit- ^ Minay, Priscilla (1973). "James Justice (1698-1763): Eighteenth-Century Scots Horticulturalist and Botanist-1". Garden History. 1 (2): 41–62. doi:10.2307/1586366. JSTOR 1586366.
- ^ Davidsonia: A Journal of Botanical Garden Science Volume 16, Number 1
- ^ Kay, John (1838). A Series of Original Portraits and Caricature Etchings. Vol. 1, Part 2. p. 317.
- ^ Richardson, Alfred (2011). Plants of Deep South Texas: A Field Guide to the Woody and Flowering Species. Texas A&M University Press. p. 51. ISBN 978-1-60344-680-8.
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