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Percy Izzard
Percy W. (William) D. Izzard OBE (September 1877 - 1968) was the well-known gardening correspondent on the ''Daily Mail'' newspaper and author of several books on gardening.
== Life and works ==
Percy Izzard was the first regular agricultural and horticultural correspondent in the popular press and wrote for the ''Daily Mail'' for a period of 50 years.〔Obituary in ''Gardeners Chronicle & New Horticulturist'', Vol.153, 1968〕 He was noted for his book ''Homeland: A Year of Country Days'', a collection of 365 of his "Country Diary" columns from the ''Daily Mail'', with black-and-white illustrations by his wife Florence Louise Izzard and Will G. Mein.〔Review in Nature, Vol. 102, 1918, p.143〕〔Review in ''The Bookman'', Vol.55, 1918 p.37〕〔Review in ''The Near East'', Vol. 15, 1919, p.51〕 He was claimed by his son, the writer Ralph Izzard, to have been the inspiration for William Boot in the Evelyn Waugh novel "Scoop".
He was an authority on roses and the Percy Izzard rose was named for him.〔''Bulletin of the Garden Club of America'', 1959, p.14〕
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