A portrait of British horticulturalist T W Gilderstone (also printed as Girdlestone) and the Tom Thumb dahlias he developed. A press cutting from Vicks 1878. His stocks were marketed by Messrs. J. Cheal & Sons, of Crawley England in 1880 and were temporarily named 'Tom Pouce' (1891) and re-modified as Coltness Gem 1918.

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Photo credit: © Colin Waters / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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