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Joseph Knight

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English horticulturist (1778-1855)

ScientistsLived 1778 to 1855 · aged 76
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Joseph Knight, gardener to George Hibbert, was one of the first people in England to successfully propagate Proteaceae. He is remembered as the nominal author of a publication that caused one of the biggest controversies of 19th-century English botany.

Scientists born in the 1770s 6

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Scientists
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Scientist
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deceased
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Lived 1778 to 1855 · aged 76
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