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  • The English Garden

    THE GREAT ESCAPE

    Sep 09, 2020 4 minutes

    In October 1920, shortly before he was due to begin his long journey home, Reginald Farrer, plant hunter and author, died of fever in his camp on a rain-sodden Burmese mountain. During his final days, Farrer was aware how his illness would end. Tragically, it’s likely he didn’t much care because he believed that he had little to live for. Yet he was one of the best and most successful gardening writers of his day and a plant hunter and travel writer of repute. He was sincerely mourned by the British gardening community, many of whose descendants to this day enjoy his writings, notably his two-volume work, (1919), which was continuously in print for four decades. How could there

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