Ernest Henry 'Chinese'[LINK: http://www.nccpg.com/Gloucestershire/wilson1.html] National Council for the Conservation of Plants and Gardens Wilson (February 15, 1876 ? October 15, 1930), better known as E. H. Wilson, was a notable plant collector who introduced a large variety of Asian plant species to the west. Wilson was born in Chipping Campden, England, first employed at a local nursery as apprentice gardener, and subsequently at the Birmingham Botanical Gardens where he also studied at Birmingham Technical School in the evenings, receiving the Queen's Prize for botany. In 1897 he began work at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, where he won the Hooker Prize for an essay on conifers. He then accepted a position as Chinese plant collector with the firm of James Veitch & Sons. Wilson travelled west towards China, stopping for five days at the Arnold Arboretum in Boston, Massachusetts, where he met