Thomas Andrew Knight
Pionier der Pflanzenphysiologie
Thomas Andrew Knight war ein britischer Gärtner und Botaniker. Er diente als zweiter Präsident der Royal Horticultural Society (1811–1838). Er wurde in Wormesley Grange geboren, fünf Meilen nordwestlich von Hereford in Herefordshire, als zweiter Sohn des Reverend Thomas Knight (1697–1764) von Wormsley Grange, Pfarrer von Bewdley in Worcestershire, und seiner Ehefrau Ursula Nash, einer Tochter von Frederick Nash aus Dinham in Shropshire. He attended Balliol College, Oxford. After graduation, he took up the study of horticulture. Attention was first called to his work in 1795 by the publication of the results of his research into the propagation of fruit trees and the diseases prevalent among them. He used 10,000 acres (4,000 ha) of land he inherited to conduct breeding of plants including strawberries, cabbages and peas and built an extensive greenhouse. In 1797 he published his Treatise on the Culture of the Apple and Pear, and on the Manufacture of Cider and Perry, a work which passed through several editions. He was one of the leading students of horticulture in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, but his personal papers disappeared after his death. Knight führte grundlegende physiologische Experimente an Pflanzen durch, was zuvor nur selten getan worden war. Er klärte die Auswirkungen der Schwerkraft auf Sämlinge und wie Fäulnis bei Obstbäumen durch Veredelung übertragen wird.
Artworks by this artist (30 total)
- Holmore Pear 1811
- Forest Styre 1811
- Stead’s Kernel Apple 1811
- Pawsan 1811
- Friar 1811
- Downton Pippin 1811
- Foxwhelp 1811
- Woodcock 1811
- Loan Pearmain 1811
- Cowarne Red 1811
- Redstreak 1811
- Best Bache 1811
- Yellow Elliot 1811
- Old Quining 1811
- Longland Pears 1811
- Teinton Squash Pear 1811
- Old Pearmain 1811
- Foxley Apple 1811
- Oldfield Pear 1811
- Grange Apple 1811