KNIGHTHOOD FOR GARDENER.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10403, 17 July 1912, Page 2

KNIGHTHOOD FOR GARDENER.

London, June 1 It .was annonacod on Tuesday that the King had conferred the honour of Knighthood on Mr Harry James Yeitoh, the famous horticulturists whose nursery gardens near Slough are a feast of colour for travellers on Eastern main „isas. ‘ % The now knight’s most recent success was ■ accomplished’ osiy the other day at the Royal Horticultural Exhibition at Chelsea, at which his firm, Messrs J Yeltch and Sons', secured one cf the three great prizss of the show. When the King opened the exhibition Mr Yeitoh, a venerable figure, with a Song white heard, was one of the officials who received his Majesty, Mr Yeitoh was a member of the council of the first International Horticultural Exhibition held in Hyde Park ia 1860, and ia tbs only member c£ that council whose asms la included in the council. of tba present International Horticultural Exhibition at uholsea. His great grandfather was a horticulturist of bo mean merit, and it tuna in the blood. His grandfather and father carried on the tradition in their native county Devon, nut aow he ia the sole representative -of the well known horticultural family, lila brother having died. . Mr Yeitoh waa bosu In Exc-tar in 1840, and ia 1853 his father cumo to London, where be acquired the nurseries of Messrs Knight and Ferry, how carried jjon under the style of Messrs James Yeitoh and Sons, Ltd., in King’s road, Ohslaets.