George Prince
[From www.oxfordmail.co.uk of December 5, 2013:] Alfred Prince (4th Generation rose-grower) married Ruby Foster (November 20, 1909 Oxford - November 28, 2013) in 1935, whom he met while delivering roses in Oxford. After 1,5 years they moved to Wallingford where they established a new rose nursery...[Alfred] died in 1978.
[fRom "Abingdon News", September 2007:] Alfred Prince, OA 1923, was a member of a Longworth rose-growing family who were responsible for the breeding of some exquisite roses which, like many famous roses, have now been lost. Robert Mattock, the heir to what was once a rival family business, is leading a search to see whether such beauties as the
Longworth Rambler, a vigorous red climber, can be found blooming forgotten in some Oxfordshire garden.
[From
The Garden, 1915, p. 585:] There is a certain charm about Mr.
George Prince's Rose garden at Longworth that makes it quite unlike any other Rose garden with which we are acquainted. It is situated in the midst of a very beautiful old Berkshire village ...
[From
The Garden, 1918, p. 305:] It was on the Saturday after the Rose Show in the Botanic Gardens, in the course of rural rides through Berkshire, when we chanced to drop in at
Mr. Prince's nursery at Longworth. Rose-growing has for years been an industry at Longworth, but in the last two or three years Roses have given way to cereals.
[From
The Botanical Society and Exchange Club Report for 1929, vol. 9, 1929, p. 580:] George Prince is dead, but his descendants still carry on the business at Longworth, Berks
[From
American Rose Annual, 1943, p. 47:] Mr. Prince did not produce many new roses, though his son
Alfred brought out 'Alan Chandler';
[From
The Rose Annual, 1950, p. 140:] ...firm of Princes Oxford Roses (formerly George Prince) was purchased. The firm of Princes was established about 1880 and Roses have been grown at Longworth for 70 years. On the purchase of Princes, R. Tucker ....
