Blooming Miracle ; Kew Grows Rare Plants From Specimens Collected During the Napoleonic Wars

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IT was the year that Britain was still embroiled in the Napoleonic wars, the first public railway line in the world opened between Wandsworth and Croydon and seven men were hanged, drawn and quartered for plotting to assassinate George III.

1803was also the year when a collection of seeds was gathered by Dutch tea and silk trader Jan Teerlink, during a trip to the Cape of Good Hope.

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Blooming Miracle ; Kew Grows Rare Plants From Specimens Collected During the Napoleonic Wars

Now, two centuries later, after being discovered by archivists the seeds have been successfully raised into thriving specimens a...

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