For one hundred years, the most famous nursery garden in Europe stood near Mare Street, Hackney, close to today’s Town Hall.
Here tropical plants grew and flowered for the first time outside their native rainforest. Here too was a vast and well labelled rose collection which enabled the nearby Abney Park Cemetery to be laid out with 2,500 different kinds of trees and shrubs, making it the largest arboretum in Europe.
This well illustrated book brings the strands of this fascinating story together for the first time.
96 pages
Published: 1995 by Hackney Society - Second Edition
ISBN: 0950655899
Binding: Paperback
Dimensions: 22cm x 22cm x 0.8cm
For one hundred years, the most famous nursery garden in Europe stood near Mare Street, Hackney, close to today’s Town Hall.
Here tropical plants grew and flowered for the first time outside their native rainforest. Here too was a vast and well labelled rose collection which enabled the nearby Abney Park Cemetery to be laid out with 2,500 different kinds of trees and shrubs, making it the largest arboretum in Europe.
This well illustrated book brings the strands of this fascinating story together for the first time.
96 pages
Published: 1995 by Hackney Society - Second Edition
ISBN: 0950655899
Binding: Paperback
Dimensions: 22cm x 22cm x 0.8cm
