Hugh Ronalds, British nurseryman who cultivated and documented 300 varieties of apples (died 1833)

Hugh Ronalds

English horticulturalist

Hugh Ronalds was an esteemed nurseryman and horticulturalist in Brentford, who published Pyrus Malus Brentfordiensis: or, a Concise Description of Selected Apples (1831). His plants were some of the first European species to be shipped to Australia when the British colony was…