Robert Hogg
1818–97
Scottish horticulturist and pomologist. Gained practical horticultural training with Peter Lawson in Edinburgh and Hugh Ronalds in Brentford, after which he studied in Paris, Belgium, and Germany. Partner in a nursery in Brompton Park, London, 1842–51. Co-editor of the Cottage Gardener (from 1861, Journal of Horticulture), 1855–95.
Sources
R. Desmond 1994
ODNB
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.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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