On Wednesday 1st May Sheldon Memorial Lecture on “Known almost the World over” as Backhouse’s.
‘Known almost the world over’ as ‘Backhouse’s’: the Backhouse Nursery of York in the 19th and early 20th Centuries by Professor Emerita Gillian Parker. In 1889, the report of a trip made by Manchester horticulturalists to the Backhouse Nursery in …