The tale of botanist Lady Tankerville is largely unknown but June Watson wants to change that.
By Duncan LeatherdaleLady Emma Bennet was an 18th Century aristocrat and plant enthusiast whose collection of botanical paintings is a jewel of the Kew Gardens archives. Despite the great effort that goes into preserving her collection, little was actually known about the botanist and secret scientist until a historian started to do some digging.
Conservationists did what they could to preserve them, placing them in the gardens' store rooms where they must be kept at a steady temperature of between 14C to 18C to avoid further cracking and curling. It was an arranged marriage but there was great love and admiration between the two, June said, perhaps evidenced by their 11 children born over a 16-year period.
Banks, who bought and lived in the Soho Square house Lady Emma had grown up in as a child, was impressed by her passion and skill and named an orchid after her after she became the first person to successfully make it flower in England.Joseph Banks named this orchid after Lady Emma as she was the first person to successfully make it flower in England
They are scientific in scope, detailing the plants' various classifications, conditions for growth, history and her own observations.The illustrations are intricately detailed and Lady Bennet added scientific notes During her 18-month stay, Emma painted 21 pictures of the island's plants which were added to the collection of those she had commissioned of her own plants.
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