Edmund Leopold de Rothschild services to the horticultural world. In 2005, the Royal Horticultural Society bestowed on him the Victoria Medal of Honour, the highest accolade in the British gardening world. Rothschild established a charitable trust to manage Exbury Gardens with which his children are involved. In 1949 he published "Window on the World", an account of his world tour of 1937–39. His autobiography was published in 1998. He died in 2009 at the age of 93. Edmund Leopold de Rothschild Major Edmund Leopold de Rothschild (2 January 1916 – 17 January 2009) was an English financier, a member of the prominent Rothschild banking
The Garden (journal) The Garden (journal) The Garden is the monthly magazine of the British Royal Horticultural Society (RHS), circulated to all the society's members as a benefit of membership; it is also sold to the public. "The Garden" magazine has gone under this title since 1975; it was chosen to commemorate the famous magazine first published by William Robinson in 1871. Before 1975 it had been (since 1866) "The Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society" (a phrase that remained as the magazine's cover subtitle until 2007). Prior to 1866, the Horticultural Society of London (which became Royal on the granting of a