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Photo courtesy of jedmar
Listing last updated on 27 Apr 2024.
E. G. Henderson and Son Co. Wellington Road 1B, St John's Wood, London​
Edward George Henderson (1782 London - November 4, 1876 London), British botanist and nurseryman
Andrew Henderson, his son (1823 - 1906), botanist
[From the website stjohnswoodmemories.org.uk:] The illustration at the top of this entry and the website is Ben George’s lithograph of Henderson’s Nursery or Horticultural Establishment in Wellington Road around 1857.
The building of St John’s Wood coincided with a huge upsurge of interest in gardening. This may have been due to the impact of the landscape gardener, John Claudius Loudon ((1783-1843), publisher of the first popular gardening magazine, and inventor of the curved glazing-bar which made it possible to design elegant greenhouses.
Edward George Henderson (1783-1876) was a nurseryman at Vine Place, Edgware Road and a member of the family firm which owned the Wellington Road Nurseries and Pineapple Place.
Gardener Eli Cook had taken over Wellington Nursery, John Gibbs’s original ground in 1831. Gibbs had operated at various sites in St Johns Wood since at least 1817 and grew cauliflowers, cabbages, peas, strawberries and fruit trees but by the 1840s a new type of nursery developed, geared to supplying ornamental planting.
The Wellington Nursery was then taken over by Andrew Henderson (1823-1906). The site was acquired by Lord’s in 1887 when it was bought from the Clergy Orphan School as a practice ground, and is still today known as the ‘Nursery End’.
Henderson’s Pineapple Nursery was on Pineapple Place which was on the corner of Hall Place (now Road) and the Edgware Road. It has been described as being one of the great Victorian nurseries. Their object was to cultivate whatever was ornamental and of rapid growth, eg large quantities of free-flowering geraniums. At Pineapple Place they developed a double-white variety of the Chinese primrose.
According to the Floriculture Magazine in 1839, “…..the extensive and excellent establishments of Messrs Henderson at Pineapple Place and the Wellington Nurseries ….their object is to cultivate whatever is ornamental and of rapid growth…..in the Wellington Nursery large quantities of free-flowering geraniums. At Pineapple Place, a double-white variety of the Chinese primrose]
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