Notes for: Joseph Headland
1839 Spaldings Directory of Cambridgeshire lists Joseph Headland, Trumpington under "Seedsmen and Florists".
Cambridge Chronicle 10 Feb 1844:
THE LATE AWFUL STORM
At a Meeting of a few friends of the Gardeners and Florists of Cambridge, who suffered so severely by the awful Storm on the 20th August last, held at the University Arms Hotel, Cambridge, January 15, 1844.
T.H. NAYLOR, Esq. M. A., in the chair:
It was resolved, -
That the embarrassed state of the affairs of some of the sufferers by the Hail-Storm in August last, calls loudly for the interposition of the charitable.
That an appeal be made to the public to aid them in their distress.
That the following statement of the damage done to their property be published:
The Storm destroyed Graperies, Green-houses, Hot-houses, Cucumber, Melon and Forcing Pits, to the enormous extent of 10,000 square feet of glass.
It destroyed also a great number of Choice Plants, Fruit Trees, and Shrubs, and every vestige of Vegetation, so far as one year’s produce is concerned, together with the produce of the Orchards and Vegetable Gardens.
The respective losses of the sufferers have been carefully valued by Mr. Franklin, of St. Neots, and Mr. Marshall, of Exning, and the aggregate is found to exceed £1,300.
THE PRINCIPAL SUFFERERS ARE -
Mr Tomlin, Garden of Eden........... Mr Headland, Trumpington road (etc.)
From the Cambridge Independent Press, 13 Apr 1850: Joseph Headland, Florist, &c., London Road, or at 64, Bridge Street, Cambridge, offers the following, in fine strong plants, true to name, to meet the times:
Dahlias,... Geraniums,... Tom Thumb,... China Roses,... Climbers of sorts,... and every description of plants for bedding out, at 4s. per dozen.