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William John Bates van de Weyer (1870-1946) was a major in the British Army who won more lasting fame in horticulture as the first to hybridize a South American species of ''Buddleja'' with an Asiatic species while on leave during World War I. Working in the nursery of his home, Smedmore House, Corfe Castle, he crossed ''B. globosa'' with ''B. davidii'', naming the new hybrid ''Buddleja weyeriana''. The initial F1 progeny were aesthetically poor, but Weyer persevered, crossing them to produce more strongly coloured F2 plants from which he made two selections he named 'Moonlight' and 'Golden Glow', which remain in commerce to this day.〔Bean, W. J. (1950). ''Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles'' 7th Edition. John Murray, London.〕 Over half a century later, 'Sungold' was raised from a sport of 'Golden Glow' in the Netherlands, and was used in hybridization experiments in the USA, leading to the release of small, sterile Buddlejas such as 'Blue Chip'. Weyer also hybridized ''B. globosa'' with ''B. madagascariensis'' circa 1920 and, several years later, ''B. globosa'' with ''B. brasiliensis'',〔Moore, R. J. (1949). Cytotaxonomic studies in the Loganiaceae. III. Artificial hybrids in the genus Buddleja L. ''American Journal of Botany''. Vol. 36, No. 7 (Jul., 1949), p. 511.〕 though neither appears to have had much horticultural merit and no cultivars are known. ==Career== Van de Weyer was the son of Lt. Col. Victor and Lady Emily (née Craven) van de Weyer, of New Lodge, Berkshire. Educated at Eton and Sandhurst, he was appointed aide de camp to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland before gaining the rank of Major in the service of the 3rd Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment. Van de Weyer held the office of High Sheriff of Dorset in 1942.〔Mosley, C. (Ed.). (2003).''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition.'' Vol. 1, p. 1130. Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd., Wilmington, Delaware, USA.〕 〔Townend, P. (Ed.). ''Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, 18th edition.'' Vol. 1, p. 686. Burke's Peerage Ltd, 1965-1972, London, England.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「William John Bates van de Weyer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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