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On behalf of Sir William Hooker of the RHS, the resourceful and intrepid Douglas undertook a plant-hunting expedition in the Pacific Northwest in 1824 that ranks among the great botanical explorations of a heroic generation. The Douglas-fir, which he introduced into cultivation in 1827, is named after him. Other notable introductions include Sitka spruce, Sugar pine, Western white pine, Ponderosa pine, Lodgepole pine, Monterey pine, Grand fir , Noble fir and several other conifers that transformed the British landscape and timber industry, as well as numerous garden shrubThe word 'bush' re-directs here; for alternate uses see Bush (disambiguation A shrub or bush is a horticultural rather than strictly botanical category of woody plant, distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, usually less than 6 ms and herbA herb (pronounced "urb" in American English and "hurb" in British English) is a plant grown for culinary or medicinal value. Typically, the green, leafy part of the plant is used. General usage differs between culinary herbs and medicinal herbs. A medicis such as the Flowering currant, Salal, Lupin, Penstemon and California poppy. His success was well beyond expectations; in one of his letters to Hooker, he wrote "you will begin to think I manufacture pines at my pleasure". Altogether he introduced about 240 species of plants to Britain. He died in Hawaii at age 35 when he fell into a pit trap and was trampled by a wild bull.