Exhibition features historic botanical ties
By Julian Shea in London |
chinadaily.com.cn |
Updated: 2026-05-06 03:29
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The exhibition, Seeds of Exchange: Canton and London in the 1700s, is at the Garden Museum, the first such museum anywhere in the world, and focuses on the work of John Bradby Blake, an employee of the East India Company, who, in the late 18th century, commissioned local plant expert Whang At Tong and artist Mak Sau to help him compile a detailed record of the plants found in regions around the city that was then known as Canton, now Guangzhou.
