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[email protected] Volume 25 • Number 3 • Winter-Spring 2020 $15 single copy price as Sarah Rose notes in her book, For All the Tea in China: Espionage, Empire and the Secret Formula for the World’s When Intelligence Made a Difference Favorite Drink, Fortune was no ordinary character. Rose — 19th Century — describes him as a “Scottish gardener, botanist, plant hunter – and industrial spy.”3 In any case, this Victorian gentleman was unques- tionably a man of botany. He was born in Kelloe, Ber- wickshire, Scotland and started his work in botany at The British Tea Heist the Edinburgh Botanical Industrial Intelligence, Circa 1847 Garden before moving to the Royal Horticul- tural Society’s garden in by Joel Wickwire Chiswick.4 This was an exciting time for botany he world of intellectual property law today is in Great Britain, in the rife with lawsuits. Apple alone seems to have years preceding Fortune’s been in a whirlwind of cases involving intellec- T travels, David Douglas, tual property, both foreign and domestic, since its a fellow member of the inception. In fact, the movie “Pirates of Silicon Valley” Royal Botanist Society, tells the story of how Bill Gates infiltrated Apple Com- Traditional Dress made three trips to the puters, learned of their innovative operating system, New World, where he left and then rebranded it as Windows under Microsoft. his namesake upon an evergreen tree of the Pacific An equally audacious effort to infiltrate an industry Northwest, the Douglas Fir.