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Rose (closed, reference only) Nursery
Listing last updated on Wed Aug 2024
[From Some Account of the Worshipful Company of Ironmongers, 1851, p. 557ff] Nicholas Leat, alderman of London...died 1631...The devoted attachment of Mr. Leat to horticultural pursuits, and the desire which he felt to improve the Flora of his own country, are clearly evident from the frequent and honourable mention which is made of him in the works of Gerarde and Parkinson... From Gerard's Herbal, edt. 1597, page 246: Brassica Tophosa...Nicholas Lete, who brought the seeds ...out of Fraunce...Clove Gilloflowers...Nicholas Lete...procured from Poland..; Parkinson's Paradisus, edit 1629, p. 420...double yellow rose...Nicholas Lete...from Constantinople...Lilium persicum...from Persia unto Constantinople...
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