# Arthur Grove

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'''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](/source/Richmond%2C_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](/source/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](/source/George_Grove) and Harriet, Lady Grove. Grove's godparents were [Arthur Penrhyn Stanley](/source/Arthur_Penrhyn_Stanley), [Arthur Sullivan](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Henry_John_Elwes) (with some assistance from [John Gilbert Baker](/source/John_Gilbert_Baker)) and illustrated by [Walter Hood Fitch](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Arthur_Disbrowe_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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Royal_Horticultural_Society) (RHS) awarded him in 1924 the [Victoria Medal of Honour](/source/Victoria_Medal_of_Honour)<ref name=obit/> and in 1933 the [Veitch Memorial Medal](/source/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](/source/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}}

==References==
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