Botanical and Cultural Images of Eastern Asia, 1907-1927
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William Purdom (1880–1921)
In 1909, with Ernest Henry Wilson about to return from southern China and an agreement with the USDA in place to ensure that Frank Meyer’s Asian collections would be shared with the Arboretum, Sargent was eager to dispatch yet another plant collector to the largely unexplored northeastern provinces of China. Hoping, in Sargent’s words, to “bring into our gardens Chinese plants from regions with climates even more severe than those of New England,” the most inexperienced of Arboretum explorers, William Purdom, embarked on his first expedition in February of that year. More about Purdom.
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