Thomas Fairchild (gardener)
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Thomas Fairchild (gardener)
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Thomas Fairchild was an English gardener, "the leading nurseryman of his day", working in London. He corresponded with Carl Linnæus, and helped by experiments to establish the existence of sex in plants, then still denied by most botanists. In 1716-17 he was the first person to scientifically produce an artificial hybrid, Dianthus Caryophyllus barbatus, known as "Fairchild's Mule", a cross between a Sweet William and a Carnation. He did this by taking pollen from the Sweet William with a feather
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English gardener
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Fairchild_(gardener)
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2011-03-10T08:15:01Z
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2024-08-30T19:53:58Z
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