Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Garden, 1884, Vol. 26: An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Horticulture in All Its Branches
Lee's nursery had and continues to maintain the highest rank. By it many new plants were introduced into this country, By the introduction of 'the Fuchsia alone the firm have surely earned the gratitude of every window and cottage gardener; They maintained a collector in America, who sent home several new Oaks and other plants, and, in conjunction with the Empress Josephine, they also had another at the Cape of Good Hepe, from whom they received many new Heaths, lxias, and other South African plants. They had also the first China Rose, in 1787. Besides their grounds at Hammersmith, on the north side of the High Road, they have also nurseries at Ealing, Isleworth, Hounslow, and Feltham.
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