George Clifford III (7 January 1685,
AmsterdamAmsterdam is the capital and largest city of the Netherlands, located in the province of North Holland in the west of the country...
- 10 April 1760,
HeemstedeHeemstede is a municipality and a town in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland.-History :Heemstede formed around the Castle Heemstede that was built on the Spaarne River around 1286. Before the year 1296, Floris V, Count of Holland, granted Heemstede as a fiefdom to Reinier of Holy...
) was a wealty Dutch banker and one of the directors of the
Dutch East India CompanyThe Dutch East India Company was a chartered company established in 1602, when the States-General of the Netherlands granted it a 21-year monopoly to carry out colonial activities in Asia. It was the first multinational corporation in the world and the first company to issue stock...
. He is known for his keen interest in plants and gardens. His estate
HartekampHartekamp was the summer home of George Clifford in Heemstede on the Bennebroek border. Clifford hired Linnaeus in 1737 to write his 'Hortus Cliffortianus', a detailed description of the gardens of Hartecamp, Netherlands. The house was expanded with wings on either side after it left the Clifford...
had a rich variety of plants and he engaged the Swedish naturalist Carl von Linné, who stayed at his estate from 1736 to 1738, to write
Hortus CliffortianusThe Hortus Cliffortianus was a masterpiece of early botanical literature published in 1738.The work was a collaboration between Carl Linnaeus and Georg Dionysius Ehret, financed by George Clifford in 1735-1736. Clifford, a wealthy Amsterdam banker was a keen botanist with a large herbarium and...
, a masterpiece of early botanical literature published in 1738, and for which
Georg Dionysius EhretGeorg Dionysius Ehret was a botanist and entomologist, and is best known for his botanical illustrations.Ehret was born in Germany to Ferdinand Christian Ehret, a gardener and competent draughtsman, and Anna Maria Ehret. Beginning his working life as a gardener's apprentice near Heidelberg, he...
did the illustrations.
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George Clifford III (7 January 1685,
AmsterdamAmsterdam is the capital and largest city of the Netherlands, located in the province of North Holland in the west of the country...
- 10 April 1760,
HeemstedeHeemstede is a municipality and a town in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland.-History :Heemstede formed around the Castle Heemstede that was built on the Spaarne River around 1286. Before the year 1296, Floris V, Count of Holland, granted Heemstede as a fiefdom to Reinier of Holy...
) was a wealty Dutch banker and one of the directors of the
Dutch East India CompanyThe Dutch East India Company was a chartered company established in 1602, when the States-General of the Netherlands granted it a 21-year monopoly to carry out colonial activities in Asia. It was the first multinational corporation in the world and the first company to issue stock...
. He is known for his keen interest in plants and gardens. His estate
HartekampHartekamp was the summer home of George Clifford in Heemstede on the Bennebroek border. Clifford hired Linnaeus in 1737 to write his 'Hortus Cliffortianus', a detailed description of the gardens of Hartecamp, Netherlands. The house was expanded with wings on either side after it left the Clifford...
had a rich variety of plants and he engaged the Swedish naturalist Carl von Linné, who stayed at his estate from 1736 to 1738, to write
Hortus CliffortianusThe Hortus Cliffortianus was a masterpiece of early botanical literature published in 1738.The work was a collaboration between Carl Linnaeus and Georg Dionysius Ehret, financed by George Clifford in 1735-1736. Clifford, a wealthy Amsterdam banker was a keen botanist with a large herbarium and...
, a masterpiece of early botanical literature published in 1738, and for which
Georg Dionysius EhretGeorg Dionysius Ehret was a botanist and entomologist, and is best known for his botanical illustrations.Ehret was born in Germany to Ferdinand Christian Ehret, a gardener and competent draughtsman, and Anna Maria Ehret. Beginning his working life as a gardener's apprentice near Heidelberg, he...
did the illustrations. Many
specimenIn biology, a specimen is an individual animal, part of an animal, plant, part of a plant, or microorganism used as a representative to study the properties of the whole population of that species or subspecies...
s from Clifford’s garden were also studied by Linnaeus for his
Species PlantarumSpecies Plantarum was first published in 1753, as a two-volume work by Carl Linnaeus. Its prime importance is perhaps that it is the primary starting point of plant nomenclature as it exists today. This means that the first names to be considered validly published in botany are those that appear...
(1753).
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