Rose Moutray Read

Rose Moutray Read Rose Hamilton Moutray Read Royal Horticultural Society FRHS (1870–1947) was a British author, Horticulture horticulturist, and folklorist. Under the pseudonym DH Moutray Read, she wrote the popular Highways and Byways of Hampshire (1st edition 1908; 2nd edition 1919; 3rd edition 1923; 4th edition 1932). Esteemed for her book on the creation of her own garden, she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Horticultural Society. Moutray Read also published several papers in the journal of The Folklore Society. Quotes Jonas Hanway ... was Portsmouth born. Merchant, traveller, philanthropist and author, his business took him to Spain and History of Iran#Early modern period Persia, and his journeyings furnished matter for sundry tomes when he retired with a fortune. But it is a public benefactor, particularly to the seafaring-folk, that his name is chiefly remembered, and the Marine Society and Magdalene Laundries#By country the Magdalen Hospital are his best memorials. Yet, when the very titles of his seventy publications are lost altogether, and his efforts to promote Sunday school#Early history Sunday Schools and redress the trying lot of the Chimney sweep chimney-sweepers are alike forgotten, one fact may keep his memory green—he was the first man to walk the streets of London under an umbrella! Another local philanthropist was John Pounds, the originator of ragged schools, and the queer little house where the cobbler lived is still in Highbury Street. Not far off was the New Theatre Royal first local theatre, or Sadler's Wells. It was afterwards removed to the Cambridge Barracks, Portsmouth Cambridge Barracks now about on High Street. Highways and Byways in Hampshire Highways and Byways Series London Macmillan & Company 3rd 1923 https://books.google.com/books?id=wNNCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA356 356 (444 pages; illustrated by Arthur Bentley Connor; 1st edition 1908) One Garden (1923) ... in Spring we can hold our own with the best. Viola odorata Violets in variety nestle in the Hedge hedgerows; Daffodils dance in radiant glory by the thousand along the banks of streams, and stray into field and woodland; Primula vulgaris Primroses life their delicate faces at the heel of every hedge, and carpet all the shaws; Primula veris Cowslips are not lacking in the meadows, and the early purple, spotted, green-winged, meadow, and marsh Orchids, spread their lavenders and purples among the lush grass, where the evasive peachy-mauve of Cardamine pratensis Cuckoo Flower adds its shimmer of delicate colour. One Garden: The Intimate Chronicle of Its Making London Williams & Norgate 1923 https://books.google.co.nz/books?redir_esc=y&id=0V1DAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA51 51 (315 pages) In my despair—for it had arrived at that, so futile seemed my killings—I worried experts for some slugicide that would not kill my plants, but only their destroyers; and finally one day in Vincent Square I poured my woes out in the sympathetic ear of Frederick Chittenden Mr. Chittenden. The Director of the RHS Garden Wisley Wisley Gardens has need to be most patient if many others question him as I have done. HIs answer in this case was prompt, direct, and simple—"A lantern and a hatpin."So then the war on slugs really began. p. 176 External links Category:1870 births Category:1947 deaths Category:Non-fiction authors from England Category:Women born in the 1870s Category:Women authors from England