Hugh Ronalds, British nurseryman who cultivated and documented 300 varieties of apples (d. 1833)
Hugh Ronalds (4 March 1760 – 18 November 1833) was an esteemed nurseryman and horticulturalist in Brentford, who published Pyrus Malus Brentfordiensis: or, a Concise Description of Selected Apples (1831). His plants were some of the first European species to be shipped to Australia when the British colony was founded.
1760Mar, 4
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