Veitch Nurseries - Veitch Collectors

Veitch Collectors

The house of Veitch employed twenty-two recognised plant hunters, including three members of the Veitch family. Most prominent of these were brothers William and Thomas Lobb, Ernest Wilson and Charles Maries. The others were:

• Richard Pearce: Visited Chile, Peru and Bolivia from 1859 to 1866

• John Gould Veitch: Visited Japan, South Sea Islands and Australia from 1860 to 1870

• David Bowman: Visited Brazil in 1866

• Henry Hutton: Visited Java and the Malay Archipelago from 1866 to 1868

• Carl Kramer: Visited Japan and Costa Rica from 1867 to 1868

• Gottlieb Zahn: Visited Central America from 1869 to 1870

• George Downton: Visited Central and South America from 1870 to 1873

• Henry Chesterton: Visited South America from 1870 to 1878

• A. R. Endres: Visited Costa Rica from 1871 to 1873

• Gustav Wallis: Visited Brazil, New Granada, South America from 1872 to 1874

• Walter Davis: Visited South America from 1873 to 1876

• Peter Veitch: Visited Australia, South Sea Islands and Borneo from 1875 to 1878

• Guillermo Kalbreyer: Visited West Coast of Africa and Colombia from 1876 to 1881

• Christopher Mudd: Visited South Africa in 1877

• F. W. Burbridge: Visited Borneo from 1877 to 1878

• Charles Curtis: Visited Madagascar, Borneo, Sumatra,Java and the Moluccas from 1878 to 1884

• David Burke: Visited East Indies, Burma and Columbia from 1881 to 1897

• James H. Veitch: Visited India, Malaysia, Japan, Korea, Australia and New Zealand from 1891 to 1893