Feedback request: Tulipa sylvestris (17474)

[oldnick]

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Specimen #335757

Taxon:	Liliaceae: Tulipa sylvestris L. ("Wild Tulip")
Filed in taxon folder:	Liliaceae: Tulipa sylvestris L. ("Wild Tulip")
Collected by:	Charles Baylis Green
Collection date:	27/4/1909
Locality:	Cultivated Great Britain, VC21 Middlesex, Harefield, TQ09, Cult at 'Breakspears' from wild habitat
ex herb:	Charles Baylis Green
Institution:	South London Botanical Institute (SLBI)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers

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Documented by oldnick on 1^st May 2012.

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oldnick wrote

Not clear whether Harefield is the wild habitat or the garden

[Chris Liffen]

FWIW - some background which I believe to be accurate :
CBG was born in Worcestershire, his father was a gardener. In 1861, the census records that he and his mother were in Worth, Sussex. In 1875, he married Emma Eliza Snare, and they had a daughter Edith. In 1891 & 1901 he is recorded as living in Myrtle Terrace, Acton - also true in 1906 (From Electoral Register). His occupation is variously given as mercantile clerk, railway accountant, retired RCH clerk.
He died Octover 1918 at Linden Villa, Argule Road, Swanage, Dorset. Cannot see a reference to a house with the name "Breakspears" associated with him.
He wrote on Ferns (e.g. Fern hunting in winter; C. B. Green British Fern Gazette II (1913) 56] and 'Some Isle of Purbeck plants' [C. B. Green Bournemouth Natural Sciences Society VII (1916) 48].

However, there is Breakspears, Breakspear Road North, Harefield - which seems to be an 'old property' - see
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=22351
http://alturl.com/byt95

[oldnick]

Thanks! (wonder how you do all that)