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Clematis (closed, reference only) Nursery
Listing last updated on Wed Aug 2024
Nursery at Forest Road [or at junction of Birling Road and Bayham Road], Tunbridge Wells, Kent, as well as a shop on High Road, same town. Closed by 1912. Broadwater Down parish hall was built 1912/13 on the site of the nursery.
See also under Breeders.
Thomas Cripps (1809-1888)
Henry Hairs Cripps (d. March 31, 1867) and William Thomas Cripps (d. June 11, 1871), his sons
Ellen Hephzibah Cripps (d. February 26, 1901), his daughter
[Information from RootsChat.com, October 5, 2011]
[From An Abundance of Flowers, by Judith M. Taylor, 2018, p. 145-146:] Thomas Cripps ( 1809-1888 ) , Tunbridge Wells , Kent Cripps was one of the earliest breeders of clematis . He opened his nursery in 1837, subsequently naming it Thomas Cripps and Son. He worked primarily wih Clematis patens, C. lanuginosa and C. 'Jackmanii' to produce his hybrids. A brief obituary of Cripps appeared in the Gardener's Chronicle of 1888 following his death earlier that year at the age of 79.....Sadly, both of his sons died before he did... Thomas's daughter, Ellen took over the business after her father died...She never married. ... she died in 1902. The nursery still managed to stay open after her death, and as late as 1907 the firm's catalogue listed seventy-five varieties of clematis. By 1912 it could no longer continue and had to close.
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