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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"nurseryman"”.
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The secret nature of seeds: science & seed improvement c.1520-1700
… of a ‘model’ seed and the advent of the nurseryman.
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Constructing Science and Status in Charles Darwin’s Cross-Class Correspondence Network
… Rivers (1798-1877), a socially-mobile, affluent nurseryman; John Scott (1836-80), a self-taught gardener; George Cupples (1822-91), a genteel writer and dog breeder; and James Croll (1821-90), a janitor-geologist. In line with recent work on the geographies of books and paper documents, I focus …
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The structure and development of commercial gardening businesses in Fulham and Hammersmith, Middlesex, c. 1680-1861..
This dissertation responds to Joan Thirsk’s call for historians to undertake a closer investigation of commercial gardening. It adopts a micro-historical approach, to address two questions, ‘What was a gardener?’, and ‘What was a garden business?’’ Based in the parish of Fulham (including the …