Long, Frank Reginald |
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(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors) |
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Born and educated at Winchester, England, where he received a thorough training in all the departments of Messrs Hillier & Sons, Nurseries, and subsequently at Kew. In charge of the Hill Garden, Taiping, Malay Peninsula, 1908-10, when Superintendent of Government Plantations, Perak (F.M.S.). After the rubber boom he resigned and took up planting in 1912. In 1921 he left the Malay Peninsula for health-reasons, settled in S. Africa where he joined the Port Elisabeth Parks Department from 1922-25, when he was appointed Beach Manager; in 1929 Superintendent of Parks besides. |
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Herb. Kew [K]: a bundle of plants from the Taiping Hills (pres. 1909). Hort. Sing.: living plants (pres. 1909). |
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Burkill in Gard. Bull. Str. Settlem. 4, 1927, nos 4-5; Gard. Chron. 3rd ser. 99, 1936, p. 82 + portr. |