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Title: The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects
Year: 1874 (1870s)
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Subjects: Ornamental horticulture Horticulture Plants, Ornamental Gardening
Publisher: London : (Gardeners Chronicle)
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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HARDY PLANT NURSERY. Amongst the pioneers of hardy plant cul-ture was the late Thomas S. Ware, anative of Barnard Castle, Durham, whostarted a small nursery at Tottenham in1857 for the cultivation of hardy plantsand bulbs. He acquired about forty acres ofland, part of Hale Farm, and the Hale Farmnurseries soon developed into a business of largeproportions. Mr. Ware retired from active Twickenham to Staines, midway between the rail-way stations of Feltham and Sunbury. The soilis a ricli loam, on the heavy side, and very suit-able for plant-growing. The main entrance openson a broad roadway, which runs to the oppositeboundary. Broad borders on either side containa variety of choice plants, representing some ofthe finest and freest-flowered of their types, andinterspersed with ornamental shrubs, with a back-ground of taller shrubs and trees. Our visit wasmade early in October, and we were surprised tofind so many beautiful plants in bloom. Theborders still presented a summer-like appear-
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Fig. 111. -ERYNGIUM PANDANIFOLIUM IN MESSRS. WARE S NURSERY ; COLOUR OFFLOWERS, PALE RED. work in 1890, and settled again in his nativetown, where he died in 1901. Mr. F. Fell,manager to Mr. Ware for some years, becamehead of the firm and continued in that positionuntil his death in 1896, when the business wasformed into a private company, with Mr. W.G. Valentine, who had been connected with thebusiness since 1887, as managing partner. In the meantime the Hale Farm Nursery be-came unsuited for the growing of choice plantsin the open, as Tottenham had become a denselypopulated suburb of London, so in 1900 the firmacquired fresh land at Feltham, where the busi-ness is now installed, under the style of Thos.S. Ware, Ltd. The new nursery is on the main road from ance, whilst the quarters in the nursery were fullof the blossom of subjects that parting-summers lingering blooms delayed. One of the brightest patches of colourin the broad walk referred to was a bigclump of a decorative Dahlia,

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