Page 61 of John Damper Parks' journal and notes: 'A list of things wanted by Mr Beale [Thomas Beale, naturalist, merchant and opium speculator in Macao] at Macao [Macau] the next time any opportunity offers for sending them to China' by John Damper Parks
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Title
Page 61 of John Damper Parks' journal and notes: 'A list of things wanted by Mr Beale [Thomas Beale, naturalist, merchant and opium speculator in Macao] at Macao [Macau] the next time any opportunity offers for sending them to China' by John Damper Parks
Record type
Archive
Original Reference
RHS/Col/4/1/11
Date
c.1823-1824
Scope & content
Page 61: 'A list of things wanted by Mr Beale at Macao the next time any opportunity offers for sending them to China'. Undated
This item is bound in the volume comprising journal and notes of John Damper Parks
List of plants and tools, including wallflower ('of a good double kind'), peaches, carnations, 'good sort of cucumber' and a scythe ('complete with rubber etc') [here the list includes approximately 20 more items]. With a note 'gooseberries, currants, sea kale, mint common they do not want, as the latter they have got, and the former kinds do no good in China'
Extent
1 page
Is part of
RHS archive: plant collector papers
Repository
Royal Horticultural Society Lindley Library
Copyright
Royal Horticultural Society
Credit Line
RHS Lindley Collections
Usage terms
Non-commercial use with attribution permitted (CC BY-NC 4.0)