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His St Brigid anemone varieties won an award of merit at the Royal Horticultural Society of London (1902) and a gold medal at the Shrewsbury Show (1903). During the early 1900s, the Alderborough Nursery was a substantial enterprise, employing up to 106 workers. As well as propagating plants, the workers had their own football team and dramatic society. 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