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The stone, set in a serpentine ring, once belonged to Rachel Lambert Mellon, better known as Bunny Mellon, a US horticulturalist, philanthropist and art collector.

From Barron's • Nov. 11, 2025

Rebecca McMackin is lead horticulturalist for the American Horticultural Society and writes the Substack newsletter Grow Like Wild!

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025

According to industry lore, Rudolph Hass, a postman and amateur horticulturalist in Southern California, stumbled on a new variety in the late 1920s while trying to propagate a variety called Rideout.

From Salon • May 29, 2024

"It wasn't really until we put them on the scale that we realised what we found," the lead horticulturalist told the BBC.

From BBC • Mar. 14, 2024

Sir H. Bunbury, in 1660, has given rules for selecting the finest seedling plants, with as much precision as the best recent horticulturalist could.

From The Foundations of the Origin of Species Two Essays written in 1842 and 1844 by Darwin, Francis, Sir