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From the monthly archives: November 2017

Discovering West London Nursery Gardeners, 16 November 2017

by Val Bott on 13/11/2017 · 0 Comments

Val Bott’s talk at Kellogg College in Oxford will look at half a dozen gardening families in Brentford and Chiswick. They improved, grafted and propagated new stock, including the Williams pear. Some wrote books, issued prints and promoted their businesses profitably while a few failed miserably. They supplied plants, bulbs and seeds to estates over […]

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