There is an original plant of this at Tregothnan, but the massive 'Cornish Early Red' of Cornish gardens which it resembles, seems to be mainly 'Smithii' ( Magnolia campbellii Located between Kilcullen and Newbridge the property is 3km from the Curragh. Containing approx. Anyone you share the following link with will be able to read this content: Sorry, a shareable link is not currently available for this article. This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. THE death of Sir Edmund Loder at the age of seventy removes from the ranks of English country gentlemen one of the cultivated members of that class. R. campylocarpum with Well known bloodstock breeder Sir Edmund Loder has decided to retire and is putting his beautiful property on the market through Paddy Jordan of Jordan Town & Country Estate Agents. and Robert Fortune, who had been sent out by the Horticultural Society to introduce the tea plant, Plant Hunting in China R. maximum He was a keen traveller and his first action was to create a natural habitat for the ferns and Alpine plants he collected. . Sir Robert Loder, 1st Baronet, DL, JP (7 August 1823May 1888) was an English landowner, magistrate and Conservative politician. (the rivals). . , for grafting and despatch to the Rhododendron Species Foundation, then in formation in the USA. after trial at Wisley. from Assam in 1843. , R. and a During the 1790s he was a captain in the Coolgreny Volunteer Cavalry, and at the time of the 1798 uprising he apparently feared being thought insufficiently zealous in the Protestant cause as his sisters were Catholics and married into local Catholic families. King's Harlequin sold to Katsumi Yoshida's Northern Farm for 600,000gns. R. fortunei and His first expedition, to Yunnan and southeast Tibet, was to collect for A.K. Name Sir Loder, Children Edmund Giles Loder On his premature death, his seedlings passed to his brother and sister at Littleworth near Farnham, but just before his death he sent several of his 1 He is the son of Sir Giles Rolls Loder, 3rd Bt. Also in there are books and ledgers containing the stud pedigrees from Eyrefield, where Empress Sisi of Austria, who was also queen of Hungary, Bohemia and Croatia, is said to have hunted from during her visits to Ireland in 1879 and 1880. . R. veitchianum Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). , edited by J.B. Stevenson, 1930. R. griffithianum He collected rhododendron seed under ninety-five seed numbers between 1904 and 1906. and Marie Violet Pamela Symons-Jeune. His second expedition for Messrs. Veitch was more fruitful. Edmund Giles Loder was born on 7 August 1849 in London, England. Rhododendron luteum , She hasn't seen . ft., is in very good condition. In the pursuit of big game in four continents his fine marksmanship enabled him to make the very large collection . in 1796. Williams named many of his hybrids after birds and butterflies: 'Blue Tit', 'Yellow Hammer', 'Red Admiral' and so on. R. strigillosum and sixteen rhododendron species under twenty-three seed numbers. There appears to have been a friendly rivalry with his friend Sir Edmund Loder, a plantsman and owner of nearby Leonardslee country estate. . He is commemorated by R. cinnabarinum From what he had read about the travels of the Russian explorers, Przewalski and Potanin in the 1870's and 1880's, Farrer decided to visit Kansu province, to the north of Szechuan and bordering Tibet. Lady Susan and Sir Edmund Loder - now in his 80th year - are downsizing from their 500sq m rural idyll, Eyrefield Lodge, the recently sold stud farm on 160 acres in Kildare as they are off to. Rhododendrons and in 1833. R. thomsonii Kildare auctioneer Paddy Jordan got 2021 off to a flying start in January with the sale of Eyrefield Lodge and Stud on 160ac at The Curragh. R. barbatum ponticum They both collected the interesting He developed the garden at his home at Leonardslee extensively.[4]. , Volume III, 8th edition, W.J. Joseph Hooker, while continuing to be a naval officer, worked at Kew for the next five years after which, through the patronage of the First Lord of the Admiralty, Lord Auckland, he left for India travelling in the same ship as the new Governor General, Lord Dalhousie. R. catawbiense was introduced two years after that, The gardens of Eyrefield are said to be the estates crowning glory, and the sale features a good selection of statuary, sculptures and even a set of canons. He was educated at Eton College, a private boarding school in Eton, Berkshire, and appointed as a Member, Institute of Chartered Accountants (A.C.A.) Named after renowned plantsman, collector, and breeder Sir Edmund Loder (1849-1920) who first developed hybrid rhododendrons from R. fortunei and R. griffithianum, the Rhododendron (Loder collection) has been somewhat neglected over the years. He also backed George Forrest's 1910 and 1912-14 expeditions and distributed seed from them. He frequently contributes articles to the RHS Rhododendron Group's annual bulletin and other publications. R. griffithianum Track 5: His success in breeding champion racehorses, both in Ireland and in the USA, where he boarded a small herd of his horses. Ideal soil: pH 4.5 to 6. All four bought freely for their gardens any young hybrids available, in many cases new un-flowered hybrids. Meconopsis betonicifolia The English Rock Garden in 1730 and "She has done well from the start of her racing career and has a very good broodmare side. R. campanulatum Click the Generate Report button to see the full stats for all races or use the form to filter for specific conditions. Lady Susan and Sir Edmund Loder now in his 80th year are downsizing from their 500sq m rural idyll, Eyrefield Lodge, the recently sold stud farm on 160 acres in Kildare as they are off to London to be closer to family. This cross was also made at Randall's nursery at St. Augstell. Named after renowned plantsman, collector, and breeder Sir Edmund Loder (1849-1920) who first developed hybrid rhododendrons from R. fortunei and R. griffithianum, the Rhododendron (Loder collection) has been somewhat neglected over the years. This time he went to west Szechuan where he worked from Kiating-fu on the Min river and made several expeditions both west to the Tibetan frontier and north to the Kansu border. This article first appeared in the Cornish Garden Journal and is reprinted here with their kind permission. x The following year, Thomas Lobb, a Cornishman working for James Veitch of Exeter, sent , from the central and eastern Alps cultivated by John Tradescant in 1650. The herd of deer and a family of wallabies, which had been in situ since the naturalist Sir Edmund Loder introduced them to the gardens in 1889, were on the verge of being the subject of an animal protection order. R. arboreum with and more for Sir Edmund Jeune Loder, 4th Bt.. They co-operated on loderii hybrid rhododendron, a cross between Leanardslee's Rhododendron fortunei and South Lodge's Rhododendron griffianthium. Of these, the most important are the From Chungking on the Yangtse river, he travelled to Chengtu, the capital of Szechuan, and then to Mupin on the Tibetan border. Later Collectors That daughter of Zoffany was bred by Sir Edmond and is out of a half sister to Swift Action, dam of King's Harlequin. Rhododendron aucklandii David . Godman, at South Lodge near Horsham. in 1976 and The plants were named the Loderi hybrids and group in his honour. By MarcMertens on 14th November 2020 "Lovely plant" Good to know. R. fortunei Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles article "Edmund Jeune Loder" is from Wikipedia, https://en.everybodywiki.com/index.php?title=Edmund_Jeune_Loder&oldid=3217616, Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. Rhododendrons of the Sikkim Himalaya How do we create a person's profile? He made some good hybrids crossing , "She's a lovely filly and she looked great," remarked Shingo Hashimoto of Northern Farm. But please note Sir Edmund Loder has only had 9 on this surface so the report could be meaningless due to low sample sizes! Hybrid Development Possessed of ample means and abundant leisure, Sir Edmund devoted his youth and middle age to field sport and travel in many lands. Dean Herbert also produced the low growing early flowering hybrid 'Jacksonii' (Venustum) by crossing Rhododendron davidii , E.H.M. x He subsequently secured Prix de l'Abbaye heroine The Platinum Queen for 1.2m guineas ($1,506,906). He explored the botanically rich country through which four of the great rivers of eastern Asia flow north to south in an area less than one hundred miles wide, the Nmai Hka (the eastern branch of the Irrawaddy), the Salween, the Mekong and the Yangtse. The Loder Baronetcy, of Whittlebury in the County of Northampton, and of High Beeches in Slaugham in the County of Sussex, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 27 July 1887 for Robert Loder, who had previously represented New Shoreham in the House of Commons as a Conservative . Needs partially shaded site, sheltered from cold winds, and prefers woodland conditions. He returned in 1919, this time to upper Burma and was accompanied for the first season by Euan (E.H.M.) , tree. Some seed came from expeditions organized by Messrs. Veitch, who later distributed seedlings from their Coombe Wood nursery. Rather earlier introductions had been made by Loddiges at Hackney, Lee and Kennedy at Hammersmith, Thompson at Mile End, Russell at Battersea and Standish and Noble at Sunningdale. , Volume II, No.1, 1920; Volume II, No.5, 1924; Volume III, No.1, 1925. Forrest's Expeditions William Garthwaite's painting of The East Indiaman Hotspur leaving the Tyne on her maiden voyage 1851. A slightly younger man was Reginald Farrer, author of Stocker'). Want unlimited access to the Irish Life and Lore Oral History Archive? In more recent years, a number of other people have also collected in this general area. The European and North American species began to be planted to a limited extent in British gardens early in the 19th century. aemulorum The team at Leonardslee Lakes & Gardens have been working tirelessly to restore these plants back to . He introduced a number of deciduous azalea species and also page 980 view all Sir Edmund Giles Loder, 2nd Bt.'s Timeline Subscribe FREE Today! Inherited Eyrefield Stud in 1968, on the death of his bachelor uncle, Lt-Col. Giles Harold Loder. Over the years, the Veitches were instrumental in sending collectors all over the world and introducing a great many valuable plants into cultivation in Britain, but no more rhododendrons until they sent E.H. Wilson to China in 1899. in the greenhouse at South Lodge. His Kew friend, Hugh Falconer, travelled out in the same party, on his way to take charge of the Saharanpur Botanic Garden. Cox. His father, Sir Robert Loder, started the garden at High Beeches, near Crawley, which was later developed by Gerald's brother, Wilfred and nephew Col. Giles Loder. This is likely to be the source of most of the plants of this hybrid in Cornwall. Quickview. A Scotsman, he worked in the herbarium of the Royal Botanic Garden at Edinburgh, and was selected by the Regius Keeper, Sir Issac Bayley Balfour, to explore and collect in the area further west than Wilson had been. R. ponticum You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. R. magorianum Later he lived for ten years in the hills between Talifu (now Kunming) and Lichiang, one of the richest areas of vegetation in northwest Yunnan. Lamellen, Cornwall, England. Rhododendron augustinii R. arboreum , and Weisbord, along with business partner Crow, is a familiar buyer at Park Paddocks but this December Mare Sale saw them turn vendor in England for the first time. These were widely distributed as 'Loder's White', a very fine white hybrid. The Veitches' Role In later times, father frequently said how much he regretted the missed opportunity. Elwes on the production of the seven volumes of is primarily a Northern Hemisphere genus, extending from North America across Europe and Asia to Japan, and from the extreme north to the Equator. These included both some of the species collected by the French missionaries and others that were new, notably the late flowering If the Sceptre Sessions had existed in the 1980s Marwell and her daughter Marling would have been exactly the type of mare who would have adorned a catalogue of such distinguished names. Sir Robert Loder, 1st Baronet, DL, JP (7 August 1823-May 1888) was an English landowner, magistrate and Conservative politician. J.C. Williams had made the dwarf hybrid 'Blue Tit' ( He worked as a Bloodstock Breeder in Ireland and the USA, In Ireland he was chairman of the Breeders Assosciation, and a member of the Turf Club. R. crassum , rose, and Williams at Lanarth, and my father E.J.P. 1 Sept . , first described by a Japanese botanist in 1920. [1] His maternal grandfather was Hans Busk (17721862), a Welsh poet. The Hooker Family The cross had originally been made at Kew as far back as 1875 and registered in 1888 as 'Kewense', but this cross does not compare with the 'Loderi'cross in quality. , as well as Track 1: Childhood in Sussex, England. One mainly tropical section grows also south of the Equator in New Guinea, with a single species in Queensland, Australia. . R. keysii R. javanicum R. arboreum (now known as , Lepidotes, Volume I, H.H Davidian, 1982. R. sinogrande Outside Cornwall, James Mangles (1832-84) at Valewood near Haslemere in Surrey, who became known as "the High Priest of the Rhododendron Cult" raised some very good hybrids, using R. arboreum Born in Vienna in 1879, he was a trained botanist and had an extraordinary aptitude for languages. Bulley of Bees Ltd. engaged him in 1911 to undertake an expedition in northwest Yunnan. Over a number of years, my father sent seed of his hybrids and of species which he had raised from Chinese seed to Joseph Gable of Stewartstown, Pennsylvania, to Herr Dietrich Hobbie in Germany and to Koichiro Wada in Japan. R. thomsonii The sale represented a massive return on the 30,000 ($32,698) which she brought as a yearling when purchased by Tina Rau at the Goffs Orby Sale. A number of other evergreen species, belonging to the Pontica section, had been known to botanists for some time, but were not in cultivation in Great Britain. R. catawbiense was named after him at the Arnold Arboretum. as a seed parent, though it is doubtful whether any are as good as the best form of Henry's Contribution R. oreotrephes For more European racing, sales, and bloodstock news, visit RacingPost.com. b. The Rhododendrons of Sikkim-Himalaya Sir Edmund Loder . Meanwhile, the impetus for the introduction of rhododendrons passed to the Hooker family, also of Exeter origin. Bred by: Sir Edmund Loder, Leonardslee Gardens. Nature R. hirsutum Between 1934 and 1938, and again in1946-9, Ludlow and Sherriff collected in Bhutan and southeast Tibet. Sir Edmund Loder, who lives at Eyrefield Lodge in Athgarvan with his wife Sue, is retiring from the bloodstock business after nearly 50 years at the 160-acre Kildare stud, which has been in his extended family since 1897. Later Joseph Hooker named three rhododendron species which he collected after these gentlemen: Full Report for Sir Edmund Loder. R. griffithianum The first hybrid recorded was an azaleodendron, a chance hybrid between She brought with her to Tremeer a number of fine hybrids made by her husband and later herself, as well as the collection of Kurume azaleas selected for Stevenson by Koichiro Wada, as all being better than the "Wilson Fifty." Titled in gilt, 19th Century Tour of the World; A Visit to the World's Astronomical Observatories, with 19th Century Astronomical Observatories in gilt on spine. A few years older than Wilson, George Forrest started collecting in China a few years later. Inherited Eyrefield Stud in 1968, on the death of his bachelor uncle, Lt-Col. Giles Harold Loder. The biography contains a photograph of Loder, which is . R. impeditum R. morii itself. Rhododendron ramosissimum R. dauricum Track 4: The need for improvements on the estates which he had inherited; recalled many families who had worked on the estates over the years. at the Truro Show in 1902. Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Early life 1.2 Career 1.3 Personal life 2 References Biography Early life Edmund Jeune Loder was born on 26 June 1941 in London, England. 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