HuttonH

Career

Collecting localities

Collections

Literature

Biographical data

Hutton, Henry

(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors)

Died: 1868, Java.

career:

Son of a former head-gardener of Lord Houghton, was sent on a collecting mission to the Far East in the employ of the horticultural firm of Veitch & Sons.

Celosia huttoni Mast. and other plants were named after him.

Collecting localities:

1866-68. Java (1866), Moluccas¹ and Timor (1868).

collections:

Probably in Herb. Kew [K] with General Herb. H.J. Veitch. He collected a few orchids.

In the list of acquisitions of Kew Herb. [K] is a collection from the Cape and South Africa collected by Henry Hutton; collectors may be identical.

literature:

(1) cf. ‘Hortus Veitchii’ 1906, p. 130.

biographical data:

Hortus Veitchii’ 1906, p. 54; Backer, Verkl. Woordenb., 1936; Journ. Roy. Hort. Soc. 73, 1948, p.286.

	Career Collecting localities Collections Literature Biographical data
	Hutton, Henry
	(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors)
	Died: 1868, Java.
	career: Son of a former head-gardener of Lord Houghton, was sent on a collecting mission to the Far East in the employ of the horticultural firm of Veitch & Sons. Celosia huttoni Mast. and other plants were named after him.
	Collecting localities: 1866-68. Java (1866), Moluccas¹ and Timor (1868).
	collections: Probably in Herb. Kew [K] with General Herb. H.J. Veitch. He collected a few orchids. In the list of acquisitions of Kew Herb. [K] is a collection from the Cape and South Africa collected by Henry Hutton; collectors may be identical.
	literature: (1) cf. ‘Hortus Veitchii’ 1906, p. 130.
	biographical data: Hortus Veitchii’ 1906, p. 54; Backer, Verkl. Woordenb., 1936; Journ. Roy. Hort. Soc. 73, 1948, p.286.