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Harry Wheatcroft & Sons Ltd.
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Listing last updated on Sat Apr 2025
Edwalton, Nottingham
United Kingdom
Harry Wheatcroft (1898 Sneinton, Notts. - January 8, 1977 Nottingham). Succeeded by his son Christopher Wheatcroft.
Successor of the nursery Wheatcroft Brothers in 1962.

The Rose Annual UK 1977, page 151
Obituary. Harry Wheatcroft. Died January 8, 1977.

[From McCann on Roses, The Rose (RNRS), Summer, 1994, by Sean McCann, p. 88:] Where is the person who will stand up and do a Harry Wheatcroft? If you are too young to remember Harry then I suggest you go back and talk to some old timers. Harry sold the rose, its beauty, its fragrance with a zeal that has never been matched. He adored it -- and he adored the part he was playing in it. He called it a love affair, one man's romance with the first lady of flowers. Whenever a newspaperman went hunting for a story at one of the big shows the first question would be "Where's Harry?"

???? - 1975.
[From The Ultimate Rose Book, by Stirling Macoboy, p. 211:] From his base in Nottingham, Harry Wheatcroft travelled the world seeking new roses to introduce to rose-lovers in the United Kingdom; he used often to misquote Thomas Gray: 'Full many a flower is born to blush unseen -- but not if I can help it!'
 
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