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Emigration of Scottish botanists, horticulturists, gardeners and plant collectors, first to England and later to Western Canada and British Columbia, began in the 17th Century and was well established by the mid 18th Century. Forbes Robertson (2000) noted in his book Early Scottish Gardeners that “before long there were so many Scots Gardeners in England that, in the popular mind, a Head Gardener was assumed to be a Scotsman." Hence George Elliot’s comment that "A gardener is Scottish as a French teacher is Parisian.” The distinguished Dutch entomologist and pupil of Linnaeus, John Christian Frabricuis, who was a regular visitor to England from 1767-1791, observed that James Lee, the leading nurseryman, of the time “is a Scot like almost all the seedsmen and gardeners in London. The Scots have established a near monopoly in this occupation to the virtual exclusion of the English and businesses are handed from one Scot to another.”