Feedback request: Mentha gentilis (K001026836)

[Roger Horton]

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Specimen #378033

Taxon:	Labiatae: Mentha gentilis var. wirtgeniana (F.SchuItz)
Filed in taxon folder:	Labiatae: Mentha gentilis var. wirtgeniana (F.SchuItz)
Collected by:	J Fraser
Collection date:	24/7/1921
Locality:	Cultivated Great Britain, VC17 Surrey, Kingston, TQ17, Fieldhead, Kingston Hill
ex herb:	J Fraser
Institution:	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Accession number:	K001026836
Image: © Kew
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers

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Documented by xmhcman on 30^th August 2014.

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xmhcman wrote

Cultivated Fieldhead, Kingston Hill, about this time the home of Valentine Knapp, editor of the Surrey Comet and President of the Newspaper Society. Was he also a gardener?!

[Chris Liffen]

Country Life, 1989

[Roger Horton]

Another specimen of this same taxon, 378029, dated 12 years later, 21/8/1933, is described by Fraser as collected Field Head House, Kingston Hill, but cultivated in North Sheen. This could refer to his garden at 355 Sandycombe Road, which is sometimes described as being in Kew, but could equally be North Sheen.

[Chris Liffen]

Both Fraser and Knapp worked in publishing - so perhaps that is the simple connection.