A catalogue of fruit and forest-trees; evergreen and deciduous shrubs; ornamental annual, biennial, and perennial plants
Information
Title
A catalogue of fruit and forest-trees; evergreen and deciduous shrubs; ornamental annual, biennial, and perennial plants: Also of culinary, officinal, & agricultural plants, sold by Thomas and James Backhouse, Nursery and Seedsmen, Tanner-Row, York. Third edition
Record type
Nursery Catalogues
Original Reference
NC/BACK/9/2
Date
1827
Scope & content
In the early 19th century the firm of Thomas and James Backhouse also supplied a wide selection of garden tools, equipment and machinery. Additionally, advertisements on their catalogues from the 1820s include the notices: 'Gentlemen supplied with experienced gardeners' and 'Plantations undertaken by the acre'