Thomas Andrew Knight
Pionier in plantenfysiologie
Thomas Andrew Knight was een Britse tuinbouwkundige en botanicus. Hij diende als de tweede voorzitter van de Royal Horticultural Society (1811–1838). Hij werd geboren in Wormesley Grange, vijf mijl ten noordwesten van Hereford in Herefordshire, als tweede zoon van dominee Thomas Knight (1697–1764) van Wormsley Grange, pastoor van Bewdley in Worcestershire, en zijn vrouw Ursula Nash, een dochter van Frederick Nash uit 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 voerde basale fysiologische experimenten uit op planten, werk dat eerder slechts zelden was verricht. Hij verduidelijkte de effecten van zwaartekracht op zaailingen en hoe rotting in fruitbomen werd overgedragen door enting.
Artworks by this artist (30 total)
- Barland pear 1811
- Huffcap Pear 1811
- Pawsan 1811
- Siberian Harvey 1811
- Stead’s Kernel Apple 1811
- Foxley Apple 1811
- Hagloe Crab 1811
- Grange Apple 1811
- Woodcock 1811
- Golden Harvey 1811
- Loan Pearmain 1811
- Downton Pippin 1811
- Teinton Squash Pear 1811
- Holmore Pear 1811
- Old Pearmain 1811
- Oldfield Pear 1811
- Redstreak 1811
- Old Quining 1811
- Cowarne Red 1811
- Golden Pippin 1811