James Cunningham (1784–1851)

Scottish nurseryman. Apprenticed as a gardener in Scotland; afterwards engaged at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; returned to Scotland to establish a nursery at Comely Bank, Edinburgh, in 1810. Nurseryman and florist to the queen in Scotland, 1837. First to take up the hybridisation of rhododendrons in Scotland.

Sources

R. Desmond 1994

Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette

1 November 1851, p. 695.

Volume

11