You can tell that you are on to a good thing by the build up of plaque. Birmingham Botanical Gardens & Glasshouses was awarded its blue circular disc last week for helping to nurture the talents of one of the city's most famous sons, whose name now graces that wall-mounted plaque. Ernest Henry Wilson has given Birmingham more than the dark-blue plaque, now hanging on a white wall nearthe garden entrance. "Chinese"Wilson, as he came to be known, was one of the world's most prolific and pioneering plant collectors, introducing 1,200 new species from 15 countries across three continents.
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机译:您可以通过斑块的堆积来告诉自己,您正在做一件好事。伯明翰植物园和玻璃温室上周获得了蓝色圆盘奖,以帮助培养该市最着名的儿子之一的才华。欧内斯特·亨利·威尔逊(Ernest Henry Wilson)为伯明翰提供的不仅仅是深蓝色斑块,它现在挂在花园入口附近的白墙上。众所周知,“中国人”威尔逊是世界上最多产的植物采集者之一,从三大洲的15个国家引进了1200个新物种。
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