See also Austin & McAslan
[From
Transactions of the Horticultural Society of London, Vol. 6, 1826, Annex ] July 27th, 1824. To Mr. Robert Austin, C. M. H. S. the Silver Medal, for his attention to the Cultivation of Double Scotch Roses, the whole collection of which, raised by him, has been presented to the Garden of the Society.
[From
Transactions of the Horticultural Society of London, Vol. 7, 1830, Annex ] List of Books and other Articles presented to the Library of the Horticultural Society, from May 1, 1827, to May 1, 1828, with the names of the donors.....
Mr. Robert Austen, C.M.H.S. Forty five drawings of various Double Scotch Roses.
[From "A Short Transatlantic Heritage of Scots Roses", by Peter D. A. Boyd, 2015, p. 10:] Robert Austin (1754-1830)...was responsible for raising about 300 cultivars of 'Double Scotch Roses' between about 1815...and 1826. He published a list with abbreviated descriptions in c. 1825...donated large collections of his coloured Double Scots Roses to the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh...the Royal Botanic Garden Kew....and the gardens of the Horticultural Society of London (
Transactions of the Horticulrtural Society Vol. VI, 1826).
From
The Gardener's Magazine, Vol 6, no.26, June 1830, p.384:
Died, at his house near Glasgow, on the 14th of March, in his 76th year, Robert Austin, Esq., to the great grief of all his family. He passed some years in his early lile at the royal botanic gardens at Kew, with the late Mr. Aiton, with whose family a sincere and reciprocal friendship has ever since subsisted. In the councils of the city of Glasgow, of which he was many years a member, his conduct as a magistrate received the approbation and esteem of his coadjutors and fellow-citizens. In his profession of a nurseryman, no man was more respected — not more for his scientific attainments and general knowledge, than for the suavity of manner and the glee and good-humour which he contributed so largely in society. To the young gardeners he was a steady friend, always ready with his advice to guide them and push them forward in the world — without pride or ostentation; in short, those only who had the advantage of his acquaintance can duly appreciate his value. — W. M. London, April 25. 1830.
