James Vair (b. c. 1825 d. 1887)

Scottish gardener. Sir Walter Scott’s gardener at Abbotsford, Melrose, Scotland, and Lady Dorothy Fanny Nevill’s head gardener at Dangstein, west Sussex, and Stillyans, Heathfield, east Sussex. A specialist in orchid growing.

Source

‘Dangstein, West Sussex, England’, Parks & gardens UK, www.parksandgardens.org/places-and-people/site/5205/history (accessed 17 September 2013); R. Desmond 1994.