John Rocque’s map of the Environs of London, surveyed 1741-5, provides remarkable detail about land use at that time. Pasture or meadow, arable land, woods, parkland and gardens are carefully identified.
Several generations of the Masters family, including women gardeners, cultivated garden grounds in Strand on the Green and London Stile in Chiswick and Acton parishes in the 17th and 18th centuries.
The Fromows, nursery gardeners in Chiswick and Windlesham
Everyone researching the history of nursery gardening owes a debt to John Hooper Harvey (1911-1997). A significant historian of British mediaeval architecture, he turned his attention to the history of gardens in the 1970s. He was anxious to establish conservation principles for historic gardens and to encourage the use of authentic plants. He conducted detailed […]
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