A garden flora :. trees and flowers grown in the gardens at Nymans /
Ludwig Messel (1847 - 1915)
Category
Books
Date
1918
Materials
Place of origin
New York
Collection
Nymans Estate, West Sussex
NT 3190150
Summary
Bibliographic description
196 p. :. ill. ;. 23 cm. This copy bound in two volumes and interleaved with blank leaves on which the printed entries are annotated (by James Comber?), e.g., by an Acacia bileyana is written "Killed by frost. 1917.8"; by Astragalus "Killed back by frost in 1947" and next to this in pencil "Flowering well 1953". Laid in vol. I: newscutting from News Chronicle April 3, 1950 on camellias in which Professor Waterhouse refers to a Nymans bloom as, "the most perfect he had seen"; address for H.F. Comber in Oregon [i.e. Harold Frederick Comber (1897-1969), son of James Comber, Head Gardener at Nymans and himself a gardener and collector of plants]. Also two letters by James Comber to Leonard Messel, one written in 1948 sending back these two volumes, referred to as "the Nymans Garden duplicate copies & never belonged to me. I only held them in trust for Nymans Gardens. Hall has given notice ...". Provenance: inscribed on pastedown "Duplicate copy to be returned to L.C.R. Messel Nymans Handcross Sussex". Binding: quarter cream cloth; grey paper over boards.
Makers and roles
Ludwig Messel (1847 - 1915) William Robinson (1838-1935) Muriel Messel (1889-1918) Alfred William Parsons (1847 - 1920)