'''Arthur Stanley Grove''' {{postnominals|country=GBR|FLS|VMH}} (July 22, 1864<ref name=bioGeorgeGrove>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sjJLAAAAYAAJ&q=youngest+son | title=The Life & Letters of Sir George Grove | isbn=978-0-89341-059-9 | last1=Graves | first1=Charles Larcom | date=1977 | publisher=Longwood Press |page=110}}</ref> – February 2, 1942, Richmond, Surrey<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=thmPzIltAV8C&q=grove%2C+arthur|title=Dictionary of British And Irish Botanists And Horticulturists Including plant collectors, flower painters and garden designers|last=Desmond|first=Ray|date=1994-02-25|publisher=CRC Press|isbn=9780850668438|page=302}}</ref>) was a British botanist and expert on the genus ''Lilium'' and a writer on gardening and horticulture for the popular press.<ref name=obit>{{cite journal|doi=10.1038/149240a0 |title=Mr. Arthur Grove |date=February 28, 1942 |last1=C. |first1=A. D. |journal=Nature |volume=149 |issue=3774 |page=240 |bibcode=1942Natur.149..240A }}</ref>

Grove was the youngest child of the three sons and two daughters of Sir George Grove and Harriet, Lady Grove. Grove's godparents were Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, Arthur Sullivan, and Olga Elizabeth von Glehn<ref name=bioGeorgeGrove/> (1839–1918), a sister of the talented pianist Marie Emilie "Mimi" von Glehn (1842–1886).<ref>{{cite web|title= From Russia with Talent: The Remarkable de Glehn Family|website=Friends of Brockley & Ladywell Cemeteries (foblc.org)|url=https://www.foblc.org.uk/2020/12/from-russia-with-talent-remarkable-de.html}}</ref> Arthur Grove was trained an engineer, but soon became an enthusiastic amateur gardener. At his garden near Henley-on-Thames, he cultivated a remarkable collection of plants. He made a life-long study of lilies, maintained a wide interest in gardening, and for many years was the chief horticultural contributor to ''The Times''.<ref name=obit/>

==''A Supplement to Elwes' Monograph of the Genus Lilium''== From March 1877 to May 1880, Taylor & Francis published in seven parts the classic ''Monograph of the Genus Lilium'', written by Henry John Elwes (with some assistance from John Gilbert Baker) and illustrated by Walter Hood Fitch. In 1922, Elwes, elderly and in declining health, asked his friend Arthur Grove to produce a comprehensive supplement. Dame Alice Godman, widow of Frederick DuCane Godman, agreed to underwrite the cost of the work. (Frederick Godman's first wife was Elwes' sister Edith, who died soon after giving birth to her first child — the child died soon after birth.) Dulau & Company published the supplement (co-written by Grove and the botanist A.D. Cotton). The first seven parts of the supplement were published between July 1933 and February 1940, with 30 hand-coloured lithographed plates, all except two by Lilian Snelling (1879–1972).<ref>[http://search.abaa.org/dbp2/catalogues.php?membernr=1700&catnr=5&pg=2&br= Monogram background from Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America (ABAA)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070203073049/http://search.abaa.org/dbp2/catalogues.php?membernr=1700&catnr=5&pg=2&br= |date=3 February 2007 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|author=Smith, W. Wright|author-link=William Wright Smith|title=review of ''A Supplement to Elwes' Monograph of the Genus Lilium''|journal=Nature|date=June 15, 1940|volume=145r|pages=913–914|doi=10.1038/145913a0}}</ref>

==Awards and honours== In January 1903 Arthur Grove was elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London.<ref>{{cite book|title=Proceedings of the Linnean Socieyt of London (One Hundred and Fifteenth Session, 1902–1903)|page=4|url=https://ia800708.us.archive.org/view_archive.php?archive=/22/items/crossref-pre-1909-scholarly-works/10.1111%252F0044-0124.00164-i1.zip&file=10.1111%252Fj.1095-8312.1903.tb01289.x.pdf}}</ref> The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) awarded him in 1924 the Victoria Medal of Honour<ref name=obit/> and in 1933 the Veitch Memorial Medal.<ref>{{cite book|chapter=Arthur Grove (brief bio)|page=26|title=1936 Year Book of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society (with the Annual Reports for 1935)}}</ref> In 1935 he received a Gold Medal from the Massachusetts Horticultural Society.<ref>{{cite book|title=1936 Year Book of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society (with the Annual Reports for 1935)|page=14}}</ref> He was also the first recipient of the Lyttel Lily Cup,<ref name=obit/> awarded annually by the RHS Council on the recommendation of the RHS's Lily Committee.<ref>{{cite book|editor=Mitchell, Alan|title=Lilies and Related Plants 2017–2018|publisher=RHS Lily Group}}</ref>

==Selected publications== * {{cite book |ref=none|author=Grove, Arthur|title=Lilies: with eight coloured plates|year=1910|publisher=T.C. and E.C. Jack}} * {{cite book |ref=none|author=Grove, Arthur|author2=Waltham, T.|title=Lilies|year=1920}} * {{cite journal |ref=none|author=Grove, Arthur|title=Rhododendrons and lime|journal=Gardeners' Chronicle|year=1927|volume=26 |pages=426–428}} * {{cite journal |ref=none|author=Grove, Arthur|title=Seminal propagation of lilies|journal=Gardeners' Chronicle|year=1930|volume=3|issue=87|page=86}} * {{cite journal |ref=none|author=Grove, Arthur|title=The diseases of lilies|journal=Gardeners' Chronicle|year=1931|volume=89|issue=2302}} * {{cite journal |ref=none|author=Grove, Arthur|title=Soil heating by electricity|journal=Gardeners' Chronicle|year=1931|volume=89|pages=336–337}}

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