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Robert Fortune
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Robert Fortune 1813-80, British botanist. He traveled in Asia for the Royal Horticultural Society and later for the East India Company and brought back to England a number of chrysanthemums, the Japanese anemone, tree peonies, the kumquat, and other plants. Fortune introduced the tea plant into India from China.
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