Seed Merchants, TooGoods Seeds Seal, Image & Found by John Belgrove.
Found near Winchester, 15mm.
TOOGOODS SEEDS * // SOUTHAMPTON *
From jillruss and sarah1952 RootsChat.Com "Toogood & Sons was established in Southampton in 1815 and were 'The King's Seedmen' by appointment'."
"Toogoods used to (up to about 1964) produce seeds that could produce giant varieties. ie onions leeks runner beans etc. They also from 1815 nurtured the amateur hortuculturists, one of the logos of toogood was 'grow better with Toogoods', and if they could market this and give away awards such as the medals for growing award winning produce with their seeds, it was an early marketing exercise. I am the great great granddaughter of the Toogoods seeds founder, and have quite a lot of information and samples of awards and plaques, also a very rare 1901 seed catalogue that has a wealth of information in it."
Toogood and Sons, Millbrook Road, Southampton, were established in 1815 and were seedsmen to Queen Victoria and Edward VII.
From Sarah Chambers, "Toogod seeds was set up by my great Great Grandfather William Toogood, his son Edward Kemp Toogood Built the business up and my Grandfather Ted Toogood, in 1954 allowed a takeover by Finneys seeds to happen, it continued to trade as Toogoods until 1964 when it was taken over again, and eventually was swallowed up by Bookers seeds."
