A little more on Fred Puddle:
Frederick Charles Puddle had a greenhouse by age 15 in which he grew champion mums; he initially trained with Veitch and was head grower at Scampston Hall for St. Quintin before moving to Bodnant in 1920 and growing for Charles McLaren, Lord Aberconway. William St. Quintin had a tremendous collection, but did not exhibit at the RHS; his greenhouses were enormous in comparison to McLaren’s. St. Quintin’s plants were sold to Low’s at his death in 1919. Once at McLaren’s, Puddle made every attempt to get back his grexes, particularly the white ones, but only found a single seedling of each of his white grexes that he had made at Scampston Hall: Albion, Astarte and Snowdrift (Astarte x niveum). Low’s had an Albion (the AM/RHS plant) awarded in 1922. Certainly McLaren would not have held money back from the project, and would have been able to purchase part or whole of the Low’s Albion AM/RHS; the fact that there is no reference to it in the 1920s orchid press may hide a dirty little secret: that Puddle may have purchased Albion ‘AM/RHS’, may have renamed it ‘Bodnant’, and may have had it awarded an FCC/RHS in 1923. There is no reference to the Low's Albion AM/RHS in literature following 1922. In addition to white paphs Puddle bred rhodies and fuchsias, clivias, and streptocarpus. He retired in 1947 after receiving the Veitch Memorial Medal for service to horticulture; his grandson currently manages the gardens at Bodnant.
Frederick Charles Puddle had a greenhouse by age 15 in which he grew champion mums; he initially trained with Veitch and was head grower at Scampston Hall for St. Quintin before moving to Bodnant in 1920 and growing for Charles McLaren, Lord Aberconway. William St. Quintin had a tremendous collection, but did not exhibit at the RHS; his greenhouses were enormous in comparison to McLaren’s. St. Quintin’s plants were sold to Low’s at his death in 1919. Once at McLaren’s, Puddle made every attempt to get back his grexes, particularly the white ones, but only found a single seedling of each of his white grexes that he had made at Scampston Hall: Albion, Astarte and Snowdrift (Astarte x niveum). Low’s had an Albion (the AM/RHS plant) awarded in 1922. Certainly McLaren would not have held money back from the project, and would have been able to purchase part or whole of the Low’s Albion AM/RHS; the fact that there is no reference to it in the 1920s orchid press may hide a dirty little secret: that Puddle may have purchased Albion ‘AM/RHS’, may have renamed it ‘Bodnant’, and may have had it awarded an FCC/RHS in 1923. There is no reference to the Low's Albion AM/RHS in literature following 1922. In addition to white paphs Puddle bred rhodies and fuchsias, clivias, and streptocarpus. He retired in 1947 after receiving the Veitch Memorial Medal for service to horticulture; his grandson currently manages the gardens at Bodnant.
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