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[BNA: Buckmaster Battersea 1897]
[BNA: Buckmaster Wandsworth 1897]
[London Evening Standard: Buckmaster Wandsworth 1897]
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LEGAL NOTICES. BANK OF ENGLAND. - No. 13.540 - Application having been made to the Governor of the Bank of England to direct the RE TRANSFER from the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt of the sur.i of £50 £2 15s. PER CENT. CONSOLIDATED STOCK, late Consolidated £3 per Cent Annuities, which nt the time stood in the names of EMILY ANNE BUCKMASTER (since deceased). of 2, New-road, St John's-hill, Wandsworth, wife of John Charles Buckmaster, and FANNY ELIZABETH MATHEWS, of the same place, spinster, and which was transferred to the said Commissioners 111 consequence of the Dividends thereon having remained unreceived since the sth January. 18S7. Notice is hereby Given, that on the expiration of three months from this date (17th June. 1897), the said Stock will be re-transferred into the said names, and the Dividends thereon paid to Fanny Elizabeth Mathews, the survivor, she having claimed the same. unless some other claim thereto shall in the meantime be made �n_ sustained.
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[A puff for the Neals]
B. NEAL, "THE NURSERIES,' WANDSWORTH COMMON.
When The Mayor of Garratt paraded little brief authority near Wandsworth Common, Battersea, Wandsworth, Tooting, and Streatham, were covered with market gardens and nurseries. Battersea could still produce such bundles of asparagus as had roused enthusiasm of Dick Steele and inspired the pen of Dibden, and Wandsworth baa still acres and acres of cornfields, cabbage grounds, and tree plantations. The country was yet open and delightfully rural when, in 1820, "old" Mr. Neal started the great nurseries which flourish Wandsworth to-day; bat Neal's great nursery grounds have been' quite hemmed in by the modern builder, and one walking down Trinity-road can possibly imagine that, in spite of the invasion of the builder, Mr. R. Neal, the present head of the firm, has some 40 acres still devoted to his boge horticultural business. The little old cottage so long associated with the founder the firm has gone. Mr. Robert Neal docs not, like his father, wear the broad-brimmed white hat, striped waistcoat, and top-boots of the old school, but he still cultivates the broad acres with which he bus been associated from his birth, and, with his sons, he keeps up the splendid reputation of name which has been known to all horticulturists for more than 60 years - which is now the fashionable period of retrospection.
To catch Mr. Neal and his sons, and induce them to show visitor over their glasshouses and grounds, one mast be Wandsworth Common Nurseries early in the morning. the dew was scarcely off the grass of Wandsworth Common, and the milkman had only got half through his matutinal rounds, when representative of the South London Press found himself Trinity-road, beut on walk through tomato houses, vineries, and among extensive flowers and wide plantations of young trees. Early as it was (writes oar representative) Mr. Neal, jun., had his beautiful horse already in harness, and he ready to go on soma business expedition. After brief chat on the antiquity and development of the great business with which be has all his life been associated, Mr. Neal, with the remark, See the place for yourself, " handed me over to admirable guide, Mr. Beat, who was soon piloting me through the extensive glasshouses, and disconraiug with learned vivacity of the beautiful flowers and shrubs which were all around in glowing profusion. The old Maypole had 'more gables than lazy man would count on summer's day, " and Neal's Nurseries have more houses made of glass than stopped to number ou delightful morning, after a splendid rain had made the gardens so bright and sparkling that the beauty of the flowers drove away all thoughts of statistics. paced each glasshouse, and found about 100 feet long was the average, and then proceeded no farther in computing how many hundreds of thousands of beautiful plants were around me.
I soon found out from Mr. Best that just now great preparations are being made for the rose season, and for roses Neal's Nurseries have a great reputation. I learned few facts which go to show that Londoners have an increasing love of flowers. Mr. Neal sells many hundred of thousands of roses, clematises, and bedding plants, and South London alone can account for au enormous output. To get rid of 30, 000 or 40, 000 pelargoniums in year is quite common thing. The popular blue lobelia, and stocks, and china asters are likewise sent oat in equally large quantities. As for roses, the trade done in these is enormous. Neal's "Marechal Niel, " and "Gloire de Dijon are favourites with all rose-growers.
Climbing plants are something of speciality the Wandsworth Common nurseries. Those who wish to decorate wall, bower, and garden, can select from some 60 species of clematis, and Neal's "Ampetopsis Veitchie" [Amelopsis Veitchii = Virgina Creeper] is known - and grown - everywhere. All plants are pots, and so readily moveable and saleable all the year round, and are thoroughly hardy. The ferns in the glasshouses were beautiful, and it was easy see very quickly how it is that Neal's Nurseries have such reputation for decorative plants.
It was not until I had tasted delicious tomato, fresh gathered - with the bloom on it - that I loft courteous Mr. Boat and with equally courteous Mr. Boxall proceeded the nursery grounds. Mr. Boxall has been yearn with the firm. He has seen the beantiful landscape hemmed in, but yet knows where to find a good view from the nursery, and standing by the corner of Wandsworth Cemetery was able to cast my eyes over Wimbledon Park, the distant Surrey hills with a glimpse of Epsom Grand Stand in the back ground. was like a day in the country" to walk with active Mr. and inspect the groves of trees and plants which he knows and loves so well. London has been beautified with trees in many places lately, and Neal's Nurseries special study is made of trees fit for London growth. Eaton-square and many other charming squares and public gardens are placed under Mr. Neal's care, and made to look beautiful all the year round.
I saw enormous number of deciduous shrubs in all stages of growth, groves of plane trees - so useful for London streets were there and 1 learned how by home growing" and careful selection even London smoke can (set at defiance. Robinias, lilacs, Laburnams, thorns, &c., were in thousands, and if London is not made beautifully green it is not because there is any lack of material. Mr. Neal does an enormous business in fruit trees, and though it may sound like sending coals to Newcastle, it is a fact that country orchards by the thousand are stocked by Neal.
Leaving the beautiful grounds, after quite constitutional, " and surprised that so near to busy London can such paradise of arboriculture be found I thanked Mr. Bozall for hour such as Evelyn would have enjoyed, and then after inspection of great array of horticultural implements, came away, convinced that Mr. Neal is capable of making every Londoner's home beautiful with shrubs and flowers the very minimum of cost and trouble.
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