Sargent. Volume I of J.G. From what he had read about the travels of the Russian explorers, Przewalski and Potanin in the 1870's and 1880's, Farrer decided to visit Kansu province, to the north of Szechuan and bordering Tibet. The cross had originally been made at Kew as far back as 1875 and registered in 1888 as 'Kewense', but this cross does not compare with the 'Loderi'cross in quality. , and R. ponticum Rhododendron Loder baronets, of Whittlebury and High Beeches (1887), "Current United Kingdom Baronetcies I P", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Loder_baronets&oldid=1095908143. That daughter of Zoffany was bred by Sir Edmond and is out of a half sister to Swift Action, dam of King's Harlequin. R. catawbiense In 1961 he married Roza, widow of J.B. Stevenson of Tower Court, whose species collection was bought for the nation and is in Windsor Great Park. Six subsequent expeditions over the next twenty-five years were organised by the Royal Botanic Garden at Edinburgh, and paid for by syndicates, of whom the leading member was J.C. Williams of Caerhays. Personal life. Bred in Ireland, trained initially in France where she was a group 3 winner at 2, before moving to America, she was consigned by Bradley Weisbord and Liz Crow's ELiTE Sales and sold to Katsumi Yoshida's Northern Farm for 600,000gns (US$753,453). R. griffithianum The Hooker Family They produced 'Altaclerense', a hybrid between These plants ranged in colour from the white with a slight pink flush of 'Trebianum' to 'Gill's Triumph' with large crimson-scarlet flowers. R. arboreum R. falconeri [1] His maternal grandfather was Hans Busk (17721862), a Welsh poet. Godman, at South Lodge near Horsham. R. thomsonii Forrest was collecting in much the same area about the same time. FCC 1970 AGM 1993 Flower Colour : Pure white, green spots, fragrant Flowering Time : Late April-Early May Scented : No Scented : Yes Ultimate Height : 4.00 metres / 13 feet 1 inches Parentage : griffithianum x fortunei ssp fortunei Hardiness: Cox, 1945. Born in Vienna in 1879, he was a trained botanist and had an extraordinary aptitude for languages. Track 4: The need for improvements on the estates which he had inherited; recalled many families who had worked on the estates over the years. Cox. x R. catawbiense/R. Cox after the First World War, some good dwarf hybrids have been made, mostly named after game birds. In c 1852 the estate was bought by William Egerton Hubbard who built the present mansion and continued to develop the gardens, selling the estate to his future son-in law Sir Edmund Loder. Another piece that lived in a garage for decades which Loder rescued was lot 81, a late 17th-century profusely inlaid walnut side table (800-1,200). Between 1892 and 1903, Pere Paul Farges collected in northeast Szechuan, where he found , E.H.M. Sir Edmund Loder . https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Edmund_Giles_Loder&oldid=1131518191, Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom, Pages using infobox person with multiple parents, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 4 January 2023, at 13:56. He trained native collectors, mostly Mosso tribesmen from a village in the Lichiang range in northwest Yunnan, who covered a wide area and found and collected seed of many new species. This was before it was realized what a very vigorous species this is, and in all too many cases the stocks overwhelmed the scions. was found by Prince Henri d'Orleans, who on a later expedition was the first European traveler to explore the great hills and valleys in the extreme north of Burma. From Siberia came In this way crosses initiated in Cornwall were later registered and exhibited from other gardens where they had been raised. 1 He . , and x blood-red Between 1934 and 1938, and again in1946-9, Ludlow and Sherriff collected in Bhutan and southeast Tibet. from the Himalayas. Meanwhile, the impetus for the introduction of rhododendrons passed to the Hooker family, also of Exeter origin. R. griffithianum The Loder Baronetcy, of Whittlebury in the County of Northampton, and of High Beeches in Slaugham in the County of Sussex, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 27 July 1887 for Robert Loder, who had previously represented New Shoreham in the House of Commons as a Conservative . Bulley of Bees Ltd. at Neston in Cheshire, to whom all his seed was sent. Several nurserymen, mostly near London, began to distribute them, notably the Waterers at Knaphill and Bagshot and the Veitches at Exeter. , [1] They had two children: They resided at Beach House in Worthing, West Sussex. Cocculus , which also grows in Alaska, Siberia, Greenland and of course, Lapland. R. thomsonii 7 Aug 1849; bapt. Introductions from North America were only a little later in time. Also in there are books and ledgers containing the stud pedigrees from Eyrefield, where Empress Sisi of Austria, who was also queen of Hungary, Bohemia and Croatia, is said to have hunted from during her visits to Ireland in 1879 and 1880. Rhododendrons do not occur in the wild anywhere in Africa, or in Central or South America, though there is a considerable colony in one area in Jamaica, which is probably of garden origin. Later, he also introduced from the Malayan Peninsula and lower Burma He frequently contributes articles to the RHS Rhododendron Group's annual bulletin and other publications. Rhododendron camtschaticum Farrer died in the field on October 17th, 1920. His father was Sir Giles Rolls Loder, 3rd Baronet (19141999), a landowner and horticulturalist, and his mother, Marie Violet Pamela Symons-Jeune (Unknown2005). Articles copied from Draft Namespace on Wikipedia could be seen on the Draft Namespace of Wikipedia and not main one. In 1920, notes began to appear from Major Lionel de Rothschild M.P., who had bought Exbury in 1918 and had been elected to the Rhododendron Society two years later. with [1], He was educated at Eton College, a private boarding school in Eton, Berkshire, and graduated from Trinity College, a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. R. irroratum Rhododendron Species Sir Edmund Giles Loder, 2nd Bt. Meconopsis betonicifolia On the latter's advice, he went north to the west of Hupah province. The Species of Rhododendrons Containing approx. The name "rhododendron" derives from the Greek in 1739. and JavaScript. x R. arboreum which he named after the doctor at the Friends Mission, who saved his leg, badly broken in an avalanche on a later expedition. The following year, Thomas Lobb, a Cornishman working for James Veitch of Exeter, sent When it grew too large for the greenhouse, branches were cut off, from which Sir Edmund Loder, across the road at Leonardslee, made numerous grafts. I knew from the legs that it could be important, and then I saw a similar model featured in A History of English Furniture: the Age of Walnut, so it too was a lovely find, she says. Beward' and 'St. We are collecting your email address in order to send you news and updates on our latest products. A History of Rhododendrons R. molle [1], Loder was active as a plant collector, breeder and grower. Joseph Hooker's expedition is immortalized in his Over the next twenty years, General Harrison did a lot of hybridising at Tremeer, concentrating on producing in particular blue dwarfs and yellows, mainly of the 'Comely' grex ( . Auction closed 11 - 12 Mar 2021 10:00 GMT (2 day sale) gavel Sheppard's Irish Auction House. Simon John Loder was born in London on April 4 1932. R. subdeciduum In the meantime, to ensure continued support, we are displaying the site without styles , as well as YREFIELD LODGE THE HOME OF SIR EDMUND AND LADY SUSAN. Later he lived for ten years in the hills between Talifu (now Kunming) and Lichiang, one of the richest areas of vegetation in northwest Yunnan. x article "Edmund Jeune Loder" is from Wikipedia, https://en.everybodywiki.com/index.php?title=Edmund_Jeune_Loder&oldid=3217616, Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. In 1839, his eldest son, Dr. Joseph Dalton Hooker, by then aged twenty-two, sailed in H.M.5. The English Rock Garden Rhododendron 'Loderi Pink Diamond - microprop' Pastel shell pink, and fragrant(Sir Edmund Loder) Crossed 1901. . Bred by: Sir Edmund Loder, Leonardslee Gardens. Sir Edmund's Loder wedding The wedding attracted many onlookers who were very willing to hold their pose without moving for thi. from Java and Sumatra respectively. Pronunciation of Sir Edmund Jeune Loder, 4th Bt. R. barbatum Internet Explorer). They both collected the interesting R. dauricum after trial at Wisley. For more European racing, sales, and bloodstock news, visit RacingPost.com. Joseph Hooker, while continuing to be a naval officer, worked at Kew for the next five years after which, through the patronage of the First Lord of the Admiralty, Lord Auckland, he left for India travelling in the same ship as the new Governor General, Lord Dalhousie. R. yakushimanum Apart from General Harrison, a number of fine hybrids have been made in the last twenty years at Windsor, Bodnant and Exbury. Inherited Eyrefield Stud in 1968, on the death of his bachelor uncle, Lt-Col. Giles Harold Loder. Genealogy profile for Sir Edmund Loder Sir Edmund Loder (deceased) - Genealogy Genealogy for Sir Edmund Loder (deceased) family tree on Geni, with over 240 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives. Seedlings of this cross were sent to other gardens in Cornwall and to Sir Edmund Loder at Leonardslee in Sussex. at Leonardslee and the pollen parent a particularly good form of R. fortunei room Durrow, Co. Laois. Walter Magor He previously resided at Leonardslee Gardens in Lower Beeding near Horsham in West Sussex. Sir Edmund Giles Loder, 2nd Baronet (7 August 1849 - 14 April 1920) was an English aristocrat, landowner and plantsman. 1 Sept . Similarly, the work to restore two Victorian fern collections and safeguard these plants in this ideal, valley microclimate is great to see. in the greenhouse at South Lodge. (now known as Our best-selling Rhododendrons, ideal for hedges, screening and large displays, growing to 125-200cm . with Burke, Bernard, Sir. From 1889 until he died in 1920, Sir Edmund greatly expanded the gardens and created a large collection of rare wild animals including unusual species of . Rhododendron luteum rhodo R. morii The first record of a rhododendron in cultivation in Britain is of Sir Robert and Lady Loder had ten children: Sir Edmund Giles Loder, 2nd Baronet (1849 . volume105,pages 301302 (1920)Cite this article. R. arboreum Anyone you share the following link with will be able to read this content: Sorry, a shareable link is not currently available for this article. Leo Powell remembers a Q & A session with Sir Edmund Loder 15 years ago. From Calcutta, Joseph Hooker travelled north to Sikkim and spent two years there exploring in the hills, based in Darjeeling where his host was Brian Hodgson, the British Resident in Nepal. from Assam in 1843. R. arboreum Giles Loder had inherited Eyrefield in 1914 on the death of his uncle, Major Eustace 'Lucky' Loder, the first member of the family to own the stud. King's Harlequin sold to Katsumi Yoshida's Northern Farm for 600,000gns. The daily routine of life as a horse breeder. Rhododendron pseudochrysanthum Camellia sinensis R. davidsonianum By this time, both the Arnold Arboretum at Harvard University in Massachusetts and the Royal Botanical Garden at Kew were expressing interest in introducing some of the fine plants that the French missionaries, Augustine Henry and other travelers had found in western China. Robert Fortune, who had been sent out by the Horticultural Society to introduce the tea plant, , extends as far west as eastern Szechuan. R. maximum He is commemorated by https://doi.org/10.1038/105301a0. The filly will have more air miles to gather now as she heads east, to a farm which has revolutionized Japanese racing and breeding over the past three decades. , in 1829 and Track 7: Explained his family connection to the Phoenix Park Racecourse, and his views on its closure. In recent years tourists have been allowed into parts of western China and Bhutan and some good forms have been seen of well known species. In the pursuit of big game in four continents his fine marksmanship enabled him to make the very large collection . A Scotsman, he worked in the herbarium of the Royal Botanic Garden at Edinburgh, and was selected by the Regius Keeper, Sir Issac Bayley Balfour, to explore and collect in the area further west than Wilson had been. in 1964. was named after him at Kew. She married James D. P. Morgan. Then we discovered the 12 different marks of sovereignty in the embroidery it really was a stroke of luck, she recalls. It has seven bedrooms and five bathrooms. R. fargesii David . "Rhododendrons - the Early History of Their Introduction and Cultivation in Britain," Lawrence P. Mills. . If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it. R. basilicum , R. griffithianum One mainly tropical section grows also south of the Equator in New Guinea, with a single species in Queensland, Australia. These formed the basis for the good quality hybrids that were made in Cornwall in the latter part of the 19th century, such as 'Shilsonii', 'Beauty of Tremough', 'Penjerrick', 'Barclayi' and 'Cornish Cross'. Rhododendrons of the Sikkim Himalaya R. wallichii and he started the School of Forestry at Cambridge. R. catawbiense Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). In New Zealand, the Loder Cup is . Before 1848, only thirty-three species of rhododendron were in cultivation; Hooker collected, sketched and described forty-three species of which thirty-six are still recognised as distinct. Northern Farm has bought into an iconic pedigree with Caerwent, the GPA National Stakes (G1) winner, also foaled by Marwell. aemulorum 'Thompson's Hybrid'. R. veitchianum European and North American Species Walter Magor is a member of the Royal Horticultural Society and serves on the editorial board of the RHS Rhododendron Group. for grafting and despatch to the Rhododendron Species Foundation, then in formation in the USA. Because of the war, few of Farrer's plants from this expedition have survived in cultivation. The allied Alpenrose, . Over the next forty-five years, apart from the two World Wars, he made a succession of expeditions in upper Burma and western China, extending into southeast Tibet, Sikkim, Bhutan and Assam. Full Report for Sir Edmund Loder. 'Oreocinn' ( R. campylocarpum Downsizing for the most part can be a stressful ordeal and deciding what to keep can sometimes be a bit like choosing a favourite child. R. sidereum Lot 6: A rare, Victorian steeplechase board game 800-1,200. We collect and match historical records that Ancestry users have contributed to their family trees to create each person's profile. x by a missionary in Virginia. Most of these, unfortunately, were grafted on R. fortunei Instead, Farrer took William Purdom, who had already travelled for Veitch and the Arnold Arboretum in the Tsinling range. and the large leaved SIR EDMUND LODER . ) and 'Ambkeys' ( Lamellen, Cornwall, England. This article first appeared in the Cornish Garden Journal and is reprinted here with their kind permission. A slightly younger man was Reginald Farrer, author of Robert Loder was born on 7 Aug 1823, the son of Giles Loder, Esq., of Wilsford, Salisbury, and Elizabeth Higgbotham, daughter of John Higgbotham, Esq. . Rather earlier introductions had been made by Loddiges at Hackney, Lee and Kennedy at Hammersmith, Thompson at Mile End, Russell at Battersea and Standish and Noble at Sunningdale. At Tremough, Richard Gill, the Shilson family's gardener, produced 'Shilsonii' ( ponticum Eustace Loder never married, and the property passed to a nephew who in turn passed it to his godson, Sir Edmund Loder. R. afghanicum Hooker, 1849-51. Spawr Walks Away From Training, Disperses Stable, Aqueduct's Gotham Draws Overflow Field of 15, Woodford Reserve Releases Commemorative Derby Bottle, Cody's Wish Begins Breezing Toward Spring Return, Champion Loves Only You Gives Birth to First Foal, Rebel Stakes Proved Lesson in Adversity for Reincarnate, Plus News, Analysis, Entries, Results & Replays, Woodford Reserve Celebrates Secretariat's Triple Crown, Confidence Game Joins Derby Dozen With Rebel Upset, Queen's Plate Winner Moira Winters at Margaux Farm, BC Turf Sprint Winner Caravel Returns to Training, English Bee Back For Another Try in Canadian Turf (G3T). Historical Person Search Search Search Results Results Sir Edmund Giles Loder 2nd Bart of Leonardslee, Horsham (1849 - 1920) Try FREE for 14 days Try FREE for 14 days. to produce 'Luscombei' in 1880, still a very good hybrid. The transformation of Leonardslee into the wide array of flora and fauna that we see today can be best attributed to the Loder family. Millais' Once the home of renowned bloodstock breeder, Sir. . They were greatly expanded after 1888 by Sir Edmund Loder, especially along the valley east of the house whose mild, humid climate favoured the growth of shrubs, especially rhododendrons, which Sir Edmund bred from c. 1895, and camellias. My father had liked it so much that he made the reverse cross and planted a hedge at Lamellen. J.C. Williams had made the dwarf hybrid 'Blue Tit' ( Up to now, the valuable exploration that was being done in western China was carried out by people who were not primarily botanists, and had other professions, plant hunting being a leisure hobby. R. griffithianum Quickview. These were widely distributed as 'Loder's White', a very fine white hybrid. In the spring of 1964, we had a visit from Dr. Milton Walker and at his request sent cuttings to the Botanical Garden in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, notably of Stocker'). This cross first flowered in 1907. R. williamsianum After the war, Major G.H. Rhododendron campanulatum ft., is in very good condition. Please see our. Robert Fortune's introduction from eastern China (Chekiang), , rose, and . Nature 105, 301302 (1920). By1819 there was a plant of this in the collection at the Royal Botanic Garden at Edinburgh, listed as R. campanulatum and Lot 297: Set of three Paul Storr meat covers 2,000-3,000. The first evergreen rhododendron species from America, , Track 3: The Irish Hospitals Sweepstakes sponsorship of the Irish Derby (from 1962), and subsequently sponsorship from Budweiser, both of which had a major effect on Irish horseracing. The highlight of the sale from the contents is lot 121; an important 19th-century mahogany breakfront bookcase, which has been in the drawing room for almost a century, and is expected to achieve 30,000-40,000. Juniperus squamata 'Loderi' is a broad, upright selection of Ping's juniper that can grow to mature heights of 6 to 10 feet (2 - 3 m) tall, . He also backed George Forrest's 1910 and 1912-14 expeditions and distributed seed from them. Besides Eyrefield itself, one of the pieces that Loder will miss and found hard to let go, is lot 412, a sculpture by Joseph Gott (1785-1860) of a fox and her cub (1,500-2,500). King's Harlequin was bred by Sir Edmund Loder from the outstanding family he cultivated of Marwell, Marling and Caerwent. "It was so bad that I couldn't view the estate properly, but I had a tingly feeling about this beautiful place." . His grandfather Wilfred Loder was the creator of the incomparable woodland garden at High Beeches, the original Loder family house at. The Loder family are well known more so for horticulture and in 1900 Sir Edmund Loder, an older generation than Marwell's breeder' crossed and created a group of rhododendrons and this group is called Loderi rhododendrons mainly recognised due to there big flowered and sweet smells. Rhododendron campbelliae campus: northeast corner of Gleeson (might be 'Venus') in 1780 and On offer are contents from Eyrefield Lodge Stud at the Curragh, elegant home to Sir Edmund. was introduced two years after that, He grew them on in a cold greenhouse and one proved to be of remarkable beauty. Get the most important science stories of the day, free in your inbox. A number of other evergreen species, belonging to the Pontica section, had been known to botanists for some time, but were not in cultivation in Great Britain. R. oreotrephes Flora Indica cross. It has seven bedrooms and five bathrooms. . R. griffithianum The truly global nature of the bloodstock industry was perfectly encapsulated by King's Harlequin, the 4-year-old . As you would expect, the sale of over 800 lots features quite a bit of equestrian heritage, including hunting crops and art by Louis Lejeune, Emma McDermott and Emil Adam whose Ambush II of Newmarket Racecourse with jockey Algernon Anthony is listed at 4,000-6,000. These included several that had been found by Peres David and Soulie and a notable new discovery on Mount Omei, R. caucasicum How to say Sir Edmund Jeune Loder, 4th Bt. (after Lady Dalhousie) and itself. Johnstone at Trewithen and Colonel (later Sir) Edward Bolithe at Trengwainton also started planting and hybridising rhododendrons. R. crassum How do we create a person's profile? Other visitors to Cornwall, not quite so frequent, were Sir Frederick Moore and Armytage Moore and Lord Headfort from Ireland and Lord Stair from Scotland. During the 1790s he was a captain in the Coolgreny Volunteer Cavalry, and at the time of the 1798 uprising he apparently feared being thought insufficiently zealous in the Protestant cause as his sisters were Catholics and married into local Catholic families. About Sir Edmund Giles Loder, 2nd Bt. b. Forrest entered the area through upper Burma, travelling by Bhamo to Tengyueh and Myitkyina. R. maximum R. keysii The first introduction from India was In terms of racing history, though, the premises lived in by owner-breeder Sir Edmund Loder for half a century is hard to put a price on. Wilson crossed the Pacific, reaching Hong Kong on June 3rd and from there travelled inland to Szemao in southwest Yunnan, where he spent a month or two with Augustine Henry. Rhododendron purdomii R. arboreum R. ponticum Wilson was later invited by Professor Sargent to visit China again on behalf of the Arnold Arboretum. and stocks. R. jasminiflorum Later Purdom became Inspector of Forests to the Chinese Government. On this expedition, he collected seed of thirty-six species of rhododendron under fifty-five seed numbers. Henry's Contribution R. augustinii was named after him by Hooker. While there is a wealth of information available on the fascinating Sir Edmund Loder, the most intriguing is a 356pp biography written about him in 1923, titled Edmund Loder Naturalist, Horticulturist, Traveller and Sportsman A Memoir by Sir Alfred E. Pease, Bt., which accompanies the lot. While Pere Jean Soulie, collecting in north Yunnan and eastern Tibet between 1886 and 1905 found, among other fine plants, , Volume III, 8th edition, W.J. The Rhododendron Society was started in 1915, initially with eighteen members. R. ponticum R. ponticum Possessed of ample means and abundant leisure, Sir Edmund devoted his youth and middle age to field sport and travel in many lands. Sir Edmund Loder, who lives at Eyrefield Lodge in Athgarvan with his wife Sue, is retiring from the bloodstock business after nearly 50 years at the 160-acre Kildare stud, which has been in his extended family since 1897. , and a little later with Dr. Thomas Thomson, an old college friend from Glasgow days, was then employed by the East India Company, and he accompanied Hooker on tours in the Khasia Hills, in Assam and in East Bengal. His finest hybrid however has been 'Beauty of Tremough' ( Once the home of renowned bloodstock breeder, Sir Edmund Loder, it is believed to have made in the region of 4m. , at first named by Balfour He adds, "One of the great joys of my life, I remember, was Sir Edmund Loder who's now unfortunately selling Eyrefield Lodge. , Lepidotes, Volume I, H.H Davidian, 1982. (named after Sir James Brooke, the Rajah of Sarawak) was sent from Borneo in 1845. Lady Susan and Sir Edmund Loder now in his 80th year are downsizing from their 500sq m rural idyll, Eyrefield Lodge, the recently sold stud farm on 160 acres in Kildare as they are off to London to be closer to family. Now Edmund and his wife, Sue, have decided to retire from a long and . 'Smithii' was made by William Smith, gardener to the Earl of Liverpool at Coombe Wood, Kingston on Thames, which later became the Veitch nursery that distributed the early Chinese introductions. Other early introductions of deciduous azaleas were and a Later Collectors Weisbord, along with business partner Crow, is a familiar buyer at Park Paddocks but this December Mare Sale saw them turn vendor in England for the first time. fortunei x R. griffithianum. R. fortunei Keyword: Sir Edmund Loder. The finest of these is All four bought freely for their gardens any young hybrids available, in many cases new un-flowered hybrids. R. strigillosum She hasn't seen . Kildare auctioneer Paddy Jordan got 2021 off to a flying start in January with the sale of Eyrefield Lodge and Stud on 160ac at The Curragh. and five A.M.s, one from Bodnant as recently as 1981 as 'Treetops'. in 1833. Kingdon Ward's Explorations Magor at Lamellen. But no rhododendrons had been reported from further west than this until the journeys of Pere Armand David, a very fine naturalist of the Missions Etrangeres, between 1869 and 1874. R. calophytum In 1680, the Bishop of London was sent a plant of the swamp honeysuckle, the azalea, (Sir Edmund Loder) Crossed 1901 AM 1968. with and more for Sir Edmund Jeune Loder, 4th Bt.. ) A.M. 1907 and 'Ernest Gill' ( Inherited Eyrefield Stud in 1968, on the death of his bachelor uncle, Lt-Col. Giles Harold Loder. as a seed parent, though it is doubtful whether any are as good as the best form of A few years older than Wilson, George Forrest started collecting in China a few years later. Rhododendrons Eyrefield Lodge Stud is located between Kilcullen and Newbridge, 3 km from the Curragh Racecourse, 16 km from Goffs, 50 km from Dublin and its International Airport Subscribe by purchasing. He was a keen traveller and his first action was to create a natural habitat for the ferns and Alpine plants he collected. The earliest record of rhododendrons comes from the disaster which befell the army of Xenophon, retreating from Babylon in 401 B.C., which camped in the Armenian hills inland from Trebizond on the Black Sea coast of Turkey. Between 1923 and 1933 he covered most of the ground already worked by Wilson, Farrer and Forrest in Yunnan, southeast Tibet and Kansu and collected many species, but few that were not known already. 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