Label
Category
Agricultural and horticultural equipment
Date
c. 1906
Materials
Metal
Measurements
525 x 135 mm
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Beningbrough Hall, North Yorkshire
NT 1190504
Summary
Large commemorative plant label made of metal, one side broken off. Raised lettering on remaing section reads: "Plant...by...H.M Queen Victori...of Spa...Oct 30th...".
Full description
This dedication label is one of a number made by the Dawnay family to mark the planting of trees within the gardens or parkland of Beningbrough during the 1890s and early 1900s. From the surviving fragments this example is likely to have been made to record a planting by Victoria Eugenie Julia Ena 1887-1969 (Queen of Spain from 1906). She is known to have visited Colonel Lewis Dawnay and Lady Victoria Dawnay at Beningbrough along with her with her mother, Princess Beatrice 1857-1944 (also known as Princess Henry of Battenburg), during a visit to Yorkshire and Durham in October 1905 (see Newcastle Daily Chronicle Report, 30 October 1905). This label was found by a pink hawthorne planted in what is now the Mediterranean Garden and blown down in 1983 (replaced by a white mulberry). A second pink hawthorne by the ha-ha may have been the tree planted by Princess Beatrice (see NT 1190503.
Provenance
Found on site.