Copy of 'Report upon plants and pine-cones in 2 boxes received from Mr T. Hartweg [Theodor Hartweg], September 9th 1846'

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Title: Copy of 'Report upon plants and pine-cones in 2 boxes received from Mr T. Hartweg [Theodor Hartweg], September 9th 1846'

Scope & content: List of plants sent to London by Theodor Hartweg. Signed by Robert Fortune [Robert Fortune, gardener at the Horticultural Society garden at Chiswick, London and Horticultural Society plant collector in China; for the papers of Robert Fortune, 1842-1846, see RHS/Col/8] and Donald Munro [gardener at the Horticultural Society of London]

Annotated at top of first page 'Copy'. Original foliation (1-2)

Includes a species of Stanhopea ('4 plants. In good condition'), a species of Catasetum ('4 plants. In good condition'), Oncidium cebolleta [Trichocentrum cebolleta] ('1 plant. In good condition'), Pinus gordoniana [Pinus montezumae var. gordoniana] ('42 cones. A tree 60 to 80 feet high from the Cerro de San Juan near Tepic [Mexico]') and a species of Pinus ('cones 15 inches long. 6 cones. From the Cerro de San Juan near Tepic. A tree 60 to 80 feet high') [here the list includes 21 more plants and seeds]