Leonard Gurle
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Leonard Gurle
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Leonard (Captain) Gurle (c.1621-1685), sometimes spelled Garle or Garrle, established one of the earliest plant nurseries in post reformation Britain, selling both ornamental plants and fruit trees. A 12-acre site next to Brick Lane in Whitechapel was already "a nurcery and garden plott" by 1643, although the earliest evidence of Gurle being in occupation is a 1656 lease from George Montagu. By 1661 he had raised the improved nectarine, which he called Elruge. The list of fruit he sold may be fo
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British plant nurseryman
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