Messrs Paul's Garden at Broxbourne

Social History (Museum of St Albans)

2005.5861

Messrs Paul's Garden at Broxbourne (18XX). Wood engravings, from photographs, for the Gardeners' Chronicle Paul's Nursery was established near Cheshunt in 1806, but brought to fame by the founder's son, William Paul (1822-1905). William was a widely read and much honoured gardener, and the leading authority on rose growing from 1848, when he published The Rose Garden, until his death. His name lives on in two climbing roses, Paul's Himalayan Musk and Paul's Single White. It is not clear whether there was a garden 'at Broxbourne' as distinct from the Nursery at Cheshunt, but it looks splendid in any case. Hertfordshire has no local stone, and the rockery here is likely to have been made of a patent concrete composition, 'Pulhamite Stone' made near Broxbourne Station.

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Paul's Nursery, Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, UK.

PWD Box 6 (blue).

Herts Before the Car, 2001