Family trees and particulars of the children of Mr. Samuel Marshall Bulley (1811-80) and of the descendants of Thomas Raffles (d.1784) and of John Bulley of Kings Kerwell, Devon [early 18th century] (1997-98)

Reference	D693/9
Physical Description	4 sheets

Scope and Content

Produced by Mrs. Joan Counihan of St. Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex (who is writing the biography of Ella Bulley, Mr. A.K. Bulley's elder sister) and Dr. Brenda McLean (author of A Pioneering Plantsman : A.K. Bulley and the Great Plant Hunters, The Stationery Office London, 1997).

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The Bulley Family, Ness Gardens, and Bees Ltd: Personal and Business Records (1851, 1890-[? 1993])

Reference	D761, A311
Physical Description	12 items

Scope and Content

Personal papers comprise a copy of The Flora of Liverpool, photographs of Ness Gardens and the Bulley family and election material for Liverpool municipal elections 1911 and Mr A K Bulley's candidacy. Business papers comprise wages book, seed index, plant and flower catalogues and ephemera.

In advance of the production of a full list of these papers (particularly the photographs), the following is a summary of their contents.

Acquisition Information

D761: Papers deposited by Dr Brenda McLean, 6 February 1998 and Dr. Joanna Sharples, University Botanic Gardens, Ness 17 September 1998

Custodial History

D761: Dr. McLean acquired some of these papers from Mr Ken Hulme (former Director of Ness Gardens) and other persons, the remainder being collected and assembled in the course of the research for her study, A Pioneering Plantsman : A.K. Bulley and the Great Plant Hunters (The Stationery Office, London, 1997). In September 1998 Dr. Sharples deposited copies of Bees Ltd., Catalogues, 1905 and 1913, and related extracts from publications about Bees Ltd. At the same time she deposited with the University Art Collections the medals, over 60 in number, awarded to Bees Ltd., 1906-84 and n.d., which had also latterly been kept at the University Botanic Gardens.

Related Material

We also holds Minute Books and Newsletters of the Friends of Ness Gardens dating from 1965-2003, the reference number for the collection is D907.

Access Points

Subjects
Plant collecting History
Corporate Names
Bees Ltd. Seedsmen
Liverpool University Faculty of Science Botany
Geographical Names
England Wirral Ness Gardens

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Personal Papers (1851, 1890, 1901-not dated, 1910, 1911 [?1993])

Reference	D761/1-3
Physical Description	3 items

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Flora of Liverpool (1851, 1890)

Reference	D761/1
Physical Description	1 volume

Scope and Content

Joseph Dickinson, The Flora of Liverpool, 185]; the flyleaf is signed ‚A.K. Bulley, 1890‚.

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Photographs of Ness Gardens, Bulley family members, etc. (1901-n.d. [?1993])

Reference	D761/2
Physical Description	1 bundle

Scope and Content

A large collection of photographs (both original and copy), together with a few modern negatives, and a little related modern correspondence, of Mickwell Brow (including interiors); Ness Gardens (including aerial views); Mr. & Mrs. A.K. Bulley, their children (particularly Miss Lois Bulley, as both child and adult), and governess; gardeners and other staff of Ness Gardens; plant of Bulleyia Yunnanensis; the plant hunters George Forrest, F. Kingdom Ward, and R.E. Cooper; Ladies Club Day, Neston; steam engine and railway points at Burton Point Railway Station; views in Ness, and Little Neston.

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Election Literature of Mr. A.K. Bulley ((1910,1911))

Reference	D761/3
Physical Description	1 bundle

Scope and Content

Photograph and photocopies of election literature of Mr. A.K. Bulley as a candidate in Liverpool's municipal election in 1911 and in the Parliamentary election at Rossendale in 1910.

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Bees Ltd : business records (1905 - 1986)

Reference	D761/4/1-6
Physical Description	6 items

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Wages Book [of Bees Ltd.], including staff at Sealand and Borders. (30 March 1907-15 Feb. 1913)

Reference	D761/4/1
Physical Description	1 volume

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Alphabetical index of seed collected at Ness Nurseries. (1906)

Reference	D761/4/2
Physical Description	1 volume

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List of varieties of tulip and hyacinth [supplied by] R. van der Schoot and Son, Hillegom, Holland, and [? Mr. Bulley's] covering note. (n.d. [c.1912])

Reference	D761/4/3
Physical Description	1 item

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Catalogues of shrubs, plants, roses, fruit trees, etc., of Bees Ltd., together with a few related publications (including an advertisement of Bees published in The Daily Express, 21 March 1931, and Gardening, November 1938, which includes an illustrated reference to Bees) (1905-86.)

Reference	D761/4/4
Physical Description	1 bundle

Scope and Content

(For many years, the Order Department of the firm was in Liverpool, the nurseries being at Sealand, near Chester.)

Note: there are several copies of a number of these catalogues; it is intended to make such spare copies available to Ness Gardens.

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Sample, unused parcel label of The Co-operative Bees Ltd., Nurserymen, Neston. (n.d. [c.1905])

Reference	D761/4/5
Physical Description	1 item

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Certificate of the award by the Shropshire Horticultural Society of its Large Gold Medal to Bees of Chester for cut roses, perennial cut flowers (sic), at the Shrewsbury Musical and Floral Fête. (August, n.d. [? 1950s])

Reference	D761/4/6
Physical Description	1 item

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Ness Gardens, Bees Ltd. of Sealand, Chester and the Bulley Family (1902-2002)

Reference	141 A311
Physical Description	4 subseries.

Acquisition Information

These records, some of which (A311/1/1 and 2) were made available by Miss Audrey Hope (daughter of Mr. Josiah Hope, for many years Head Gardner of Ness Gardens), were deposited by Mr. Paul Cook, Curator, Ness Gardens, on 18 October 2007.

Archivist's Note

Listed by Adrian Allan.

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Ness Gardens and the Bulley family ( 1902-71 )

Reference	A311/1/1-2
Physical Description	1 wallet and 1 album

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Collection of plastic sleeves (with list of contents) holding:- ( 1902-71 )

Reference	A311/1/1
Physical Description	(1 wallet)

Scope and Content

• Mounted black and white photographs of Mrs. Harriet A. Bulley, aged over 91 years and aged 94½ years, n.d.
• Mounted black and white photograph of Miss Lois Bulley, taken by J. Bacon & Sons, Liverpool, negative ref. 37529B; n.d.
• Mounted black and white photograph of Miss Lois Bulley (as a young child) with her German Governess, 12 Feb. 1902.
• Black and white photograph of Miss Lois Bulley in a garden, n.d. [?1950s]
• Black and white mounted photographs of Alfred Bulley and his bride and party outside a church porch, and of the bride [and her father], n.d. [?1950s].
• Photocopies of [Ordnance Survey] maps of Mickwell Brow and surrounding area, (1898) and n.d. [?1910s, including Nursery to the north of Mickwell Brow].
• pp.11 and [12] of The [Birkenhead] News, 21 May 1971, including an illustrated article on Ness Gardens.
• pp.1-2 and 19-20 of the Heswall & Neston News and Advertiser, 1 Jan 1971, including an obituary of Mr. Josiah Hope, aged 95 years.
• Cutting from the Birkenhead News and Advertiser, 20 Jan. 1962, about Mr. Josiah Hope and the rock garden at Ness Gardens to be named after him (and photocopy of this press cutting).
• Long Service Certificate awarded by The Royal Horticultural Society to Mr. Josiah Hope for 40 years' service, n.d. [?1950s].
• Photocopies of letters from Mr. A.K. Bulley, Ness, to Dr. Balfour, Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh, in particular about recruiting a person to take charge of his garden and greenhouses at Ness/about Mr. [Josiah] Hope who was recruited from the Royal Botanic Gardens, (17 Jan., 3,5 and 7 Feb. 1913); from Mrs. A.K. Bulley to Dr. [Bailey] Balfour (5 Feb. 1913); photocopy of related telegrams to Dr. Balfour (4 Feb. 1913); photocopy of letter from Dr. Balfour to Mr. Bulley (4 Feb. 1913); photocopy of letter from Mr. J. Hope to Professor Balfour regarding Primulas (7 March [1917]) and photocopies of letters from Mr. Bulley to Dr. Balfour and of transcript of part of a letter in response from Professor Balfour regarding the naming of a Primula after Mr. Hope (Primula Hopeana) (15,22 and 24 Sept. 1916).
• Photocopy of Lease by Miss Agnes Lois Bulley of Birch Hey, Ness, to Josiah Hope, Head Gardener, of Ness Gardens Cottage, of the latter cottage, for 99 years; plan of Ness Gardens annexed to the lease. (25 Nov. 1948)
• Photocopy of printed note which accompanied surplus seeds sent by Mr. J. Hope, on the instructions of Mr. A.K. Bulley, to other gardens, (1926).
• 3 copies of Parcel Label `Perishable. Per Parcel Post. From The Co-operative Bees, Ltd. Nurserymen, Neston, Cheshire' (n.d.)

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Photograph album containing:- ( 1906-[?1965] )

Reference	A311/1/2
Physical Description	(1 album)

Scope and Content

• Black and white photograph of [Mr. Alfred Bulley] in front of a rock face, n.d. [c.1924]
• Press cutting reporting the awards for 1944 made by the Royal Horticultural Society (including the Associateship of Honour awarded to Mr. J. Hope), 1944.
• Colour photograph of [Mr. J. Hope and Miss Lois Bulley] beside a plaque in a rock garden, n.d.
• Black and white photographs of Mrs. A.K. Bulley, Mrs. Bulley and Miss Lois Bulley, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Bulley on their wedding day, and of [? Mr. & Mrs. Alfred Bulley when the former was in Air Force uniform], n.d.
• Black and white photographs of Mrs. A.K. Bulley (at Mickwell Brow), and Mr. and Mrs. A.K. Bulley (in the Library at Mickwell Brow), and sepia photograph of Mr. A.K. Bulley and Miss Lois Bulley playing chess, n.d.
• Black and white photograph of various levels (marked 67, 71, and 73) in a garden, [? being prepared for planting], n.d.
• Black and white picture postcard view of a rock garden, 1906.
• Sepia picture postcard of The Village, Ness, (with Mealdon & Sons, Plough Makers, in the background); published by Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd., n.d.
• Sepia photographs of [Mickwell Brow] viewed from a driveway and from the distance, n.d. [? pre 1910].
• Black and white picture postcard view of Rose Pergola, The Gardens, Ness, sent to Miss Iris Hope, Ness Gardens, by her mother, 20 May 1928.
• Modern sepia copies of picture postcard views of [Rose] Pergola, The Gardens, Ness, and of Bull Gardens, Ness (the latter published by Lilywhite Ltd., Triangle, Halifax), n.d.
• Four black and white photographs of views at Ness Gardens, n.d. [?1930s].
• Black and white group photograph of [Mr. Josiah Hope, Mr Ken Hulme, and other staff of Ness Gardens, on the occasion of Mrs. Hope's 90th birthday], n.d. [?1965].
• Press cutting reproducing a photograph of those (including Frank Toole, Chairman of Neston UDC) present in the Rock Garden, Ness Gardens, on the occasion of a University Garden Party, n.d. [pre 1964].
• Modern sepia copy of photograph of two ladies walking in a lane [? at The Rake, Ness].
• Photocopy of press cutting of a captioned photograph of Mr. Josiah Hope, aged 88, n.d. [c.1963].
• Nine small photographs of [Mr. Alfred Bulley and another gentleman], of scenery near a railway line, and of a hotel, with a note `From Alfred Bulley Photographs taken about 1924. The larger shot taken on the Gemini Pass. The other taken near Zermatt' [Switzerland].
• Eight black and white photographs of alpine scenery, buildings, two motor cars and persons, taken on a plant collecting holiday of Mr. Hope at Nasserein, Zugspitze, Warth and area, Austria, n.d. [?1920s].
• Letter from J.H. Watson, Carlyle Villa, 20 St.Paul's Road, Withington, Manchester, to Mr. Hope, sending him a bulb of Chalcedorun and some rooted cuttings of Ericus Alpinus, 5 Oct. 1944.
• Sepia portrait photograph of [? Mr. J.H. Watson], n.d.
• Colour photograph of Mr. Hope beside a white rhododendron, n.d.
• Colour photograph of Mr. Hope in a greenhouse at Ness Gardens, n.d.
• Colour photograph of Irises in a border in front of hedges, with greenhouses and buildings in the background, n.d.
• Joint Rock Garden Plant Committee (Royal Horticultural Society and Alpine Garden Society) Award of Merit for Leptospernum Scoparium Nichollsii Nanum exhibited by Mr. J. Hope, Ness Gardens, 19 May 1953.

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Ness Gardens: record of tress, etc. ordered, and account books ( 1917-48 )

Reference	A311/2/1-5
Physical Description	5 volumes

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Record of trees ( Jan 1917- Spring 1922 )

Reference	A311/2/1
Physical Description	(1 volume)

Scope and Content

(Including fruit trees), shrubs, roses, bulbs, etc., ordered from various suppliers (including Bees Ltd., Sealand; Allgrove; Edinburgh Royal Botanic Garden; and C. G. Van Tubergen Jr, Haarlem, Holland). The latter pages in this volume have been used by a young child, in writing numerals and drawing.

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Garden account books ( 1935-47 )

Reference	A311/2/2-4
Physical Description	3 volumes

Scope and Content

Recording, each week, expenditure on the wages of named staff, garden (insurance of staff, closet, parcels, stamps, etc.), garage (staff wages & overtime), and hospital subscriptions.

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8 Nov. 1935 - 7 May 1937 ( not dated )

Reference	A311/2/2
Physical Description	(1 volume)

Scope and Content

Includes balance sheet for insurance stamps for staff for half years ending 4 July 1936 and 1 Jan. 1937.

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14 May 1937 - 12 Dec. 1941 ( not dated )

Reference	A311/2/3
Physical Description	(1 volume)

Scope and Content

Includes balance sheet for staff insurance stamps for half years ending 31 Dec. 1937 - 4 July 1941. At the back of the volume is a list of eight members of staff of the gardens and their dates [of birth].

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19 Dec. 1941 - 25 July 1947 ( not dated )

Reference	A311/2/4
Physical Description	(1 volume)

Scope and Content

Includes Insurance and Unemployment Stamp Accounts for staff for half years ending 3 Jan. 1942 - 27 Dec. 1946.

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Kitchen garden produce account book ( 4 July 1941- 26 Nov. 1948 )

Reference	A311/2/5
Physical Description	(1 volume)

Scope and Content

Recording the quantity of vegetables (tomatoes, lettuce, onions, gooseberries, etc.) produced each week and the amount they were sold for, also a note of the valuation of produce accounted for by the `House Account', `Gift Account', and `Staff & c', each week's total being initialled `H.A.B.' [Mrs. Harriet A. Bulley]. At the front of the volume: alphabetical index to separate accounts [which were kept on pages which have since been removed from the volume].

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Film and sound recordings ( 1984-94, n.d. )

Reference	A311/3/1-2
Physical Description

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Film and video recordings ( 1984-94, n.d. )

Reference	A311/3/1/1-11
Physical Description

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`Ness Gardens (video jukebox sequence) as shown at Garden Festival 1984' ( 1984 )

Reference	A311/3/1/1
Physical Description	(1 videocassette)

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`Ness down to Earth Pt.II' ( 8 Sept.1985 )

Reference	A311/3/1/2
Physical Description	(1 videocassette)

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`Bulley Family Footage' ([University of Liverpool Television Service]) ( 22 Sept. 1994 )

Reference	A311/3/1/3
Physical Description	(1 videocassette)

Note

`Film Transfer T/C Direct from Betacam This Tape Recorded 22.9.94'

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`Graduation Video' ( n.d. [pre 1998] )

Reference	A311/3/1/4
Physical Description	(2 videocassettes, one marked `Original Video')

Scope and Content

(Interface Video Productions, Salford) [Interface Video Productions produced videos of graduation ceremonies at NW universities including Liverpool; the company was wound up in 1998 and its film was not preserved/deposited in a repository.]

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`Ness Gardens Film Transfer with new timecode B 467' ( n.d. )

Reference	A311/3/1/5
Physical Description	(1 videocassette)

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`Dub of BBC Gardeners World at Ness Gardens with TC M287' ( n.d. )

Reference	A311/3/1/6
Physical Description	(1 videocassette)

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`A Many Splendoured Spring' (Bloembollenraad; `property of Netherlands Flower-bulb Institute...Hillegom, Holland'). ( n.d. )

Reference	A311/3/1/7
Physical Description	(1 10.5" reel 16mm colour-sound film; 179 metres, 15 minutes.in plastic canister)

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Bulley family ( n.d. )

Reference	A311/3/1/8
Physical Description	(1 reel of 16mm film, not in a canister)

Scope and Content

According to a MS. note attached to the film, the film does not feature Ness Gardens, being of AK [Bulley]'s brother and his wife on their round the world tour with pictures mainly of India; it is noted that there is sprocket damage and the film is badly scratched from previous use.

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`The Whole World in your Home' (Brian Walker, Blackheath, London). , [produced] for ICI. ( n.d. )

Reference	A311/3/1/9
Physical Description	(2 copies) (2 reels of 16mm colour film in plastic canisters)

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`Voorjaarsbloemen' `A Many Splendoured Spring' (Cineco, Hilversum, Holland) ( n.d. )

Reference	A311/3/1/10
Physical Description	(1 reel of 16mm colour film; 179 metres in metal canister)

Note

Made available by Associated Bulb Growers of Holland, 25-27 St.George Street, London.

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`Dutch Summer Spectacular' ( n.d. )

Reference	A311/3/1/11
Physical Description	(1 16mm colour film reel in metal canister)

Note

Made available by Associated Bulb Growers of Holland, 25-27 St.George Street, London.

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Sound recordings ( 1985, n.d. )

Reference	A311/3/2/1-10
Physical Description

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`Wildlife in Towns (All Slides) ( 1985 )

Reference	A311/3/2/1
Physical Description	(1 cassette)

Note

Made 11/10/85' [? copy made in October 1985]

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`Wildlife in Towns' (Nature Conservancy Council) ( n.d. )

Reference	A311/3/2/2
Physical Description	(1 cassette)

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`Wildlife in Towns (Pulsed Tape) Short AIWA' ( n.d. )

Reference	A311/3/2/3
Physical Description	(1 cassette)

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`Garden Primula with advert - 15 minutes duration Pulsed tape' ( n.d. )

Reference	A311/3/2/4
Physical Description	(1 cassette)

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`Garden Primula - Duration 15 mins. (Pulsed tape)... without advert' ( n.d. )

Reference	A311/3/2/5
Physical Description	(1 cassette)

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`Garden Primula (with advert) 15 mins. duration Pulsed (slight break through on sound)' ( n.d. )

Reference	A311/3/2/6
Physical Description	(1 cassette)

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`Ness Gardens - Damaged Tape' ( n.d. )

Reference	A311/3/2/7
Physical Description	(1 cassette)

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`Saving the Plants that Saved Us (WWF/IUCN) Narrated by Robert Hardy (Long-General Public)' and `No Trees...No Life (ICCE/WNF) Narrated by Ken Jackson (Short-Schools)' ( n.d. )

Reference	A311/3/2/8
Physical Description	(1 cassette)

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`Caring for the Earth' (IUCN: International Centre for Conservation Education) ( n.d. )

Reference	A311/3/2/9
Physical Description	(1 cassette)

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Unidentified cassette ( n.d. )

Reference	A311/3/2/10
Physical Description	(1 cassette)

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Publicity-related photographs and publications of Sealand Nurseries Ltd. ( 1979-2002, n.d. )

Reference	A311/4/1-44
Physical Description

Scope and Content

These photographs and publications were removed from the polythene envelopes in which they were kept. The identifications and descriptions of individual photographs and their dating draws on the work of Mrs. Carol Rae, a volunteer at Ness Gardens, who ordered these photographs prior to their deposit.

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Anne Diamond with the rose named after her by Sealand Nurseries and launched at the Chelsea Flower Show, 1988. ( 1988 )

Reference	A311/4/1
Physical Description	(envelope containing Colour transparency and black and white photographs)

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Photocopies of press articles concerning `Bees of Chester' fine nursery products (especially roses). ( (1985-86) )

Reference	A311/4/2
Physical Description	(envelope)

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`Chardonnay' roses, Sealand Nurseries, Chester. ( 1988 )

Reference	A311/4/3
Physical Description	Two black and white and colour negatives

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Roses [including Rose `Anne Diamond'] [awarded a Gold Medal at Chelsea Flower Show] ( [1985] )

Reference	A311/4/4
Physical Description	5 colour transparencies

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