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Listing last updated on Sat Apr 2025
Thomas Rivers (December 27, 1798 Sawbridgeworth, Hertf. - October 17, 1877 Sawbridgeworth), nurseryman and horticultural author. Succeeded to the family business (est. 1725) in 1827.
[From L'Illustration horticole, December 1877, p. 183:] M. Taomas Rivers, le célèbre pépiniériste de Sawbridgeworth, en Angleterre, est mort le 17 octobre dernier. Sa réputation était européenne. La culture du Rosier et surtout celle des arbres fruitiers sous-abri (Orchard-houses) avaient recu de lui de grands perfectionnements, et les livres qu ils leur avait consacrés étaient promptement devenus populaires. M. Rivers connaissait l'Europe et surtout la France, qu'il avait visitée à plusieurs reprises. On peut affirmer que c'est dans ses rapports avec les pépiniètistes et les pomologues de ce pays qu'il avait d'abord puisé les éléments de a premiers travaux, et lui-même disait volontiers combien il devait aux Dalbret, aux Jamin, aux Hardy, à tous ceux qui ont élevé si haut la culture des arbres fruitiers dans ce siècle et dont le nom est inséparable de l'introduction d'une quantité d'excellents fruits.
[From Old Roses, by Ethelyn Emery Keays, p. 167: in] 1837 Thomas Rivers published The Rose Amateur's Guide [at that time, Rivers had been a nurseryman for 20 years]
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