Patrick Neill
1776–1851
Printer. Vice-president of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh, 1836. Founder member of the Caledonian Horticultural Society and secretary for forty years. Collected Scottish plants and had a garden at Canonmills. Promoted the establishment of the Edinburgh Zoological Garden.
Source
R. Desmond 1994, Gardeners’ Chronicle (1851): 663–4.
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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