James Cunningham
1784–1851
Scottish nurseryman. Apprenticed as a gardener in Scotland; afterwards engaged at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; returned to Scotland to establish a nursery at Comely Bank, Edinburgh, in 1810. Nurseryman and florist to the queen in Scotland, 1837. First to take up the hybridisation of rhododendrons in Scotland.
Sources
R. Desmond 1994
Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette
1 November 1851, p. 695.
Bibliography
Desmond, Ray. 1994. Dictionary of British and Irish botanists and horticulturists including plant collectors, flower painters and garden designers. New edition, revised with the assistance of Christine Ellwood. London: Taylor & Francis and the Natural History Museum. Bristol, Pa.: Taylor & Francis.
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