Doctor John Letson's Garden

Gardens of this period are very much scientific laboratories, as active places where research was being carried out. You would come in through a lodge that the postman would let you in and then be confronted with quite a decent sized landscape. We've got statues, statuary is a big thing, but we have shakespeare, which has been as slightly unusual in this period. It's not just completely ornamental. In between the ornamental beds, you might also find things like mango wurzel. And lets us ont the first to grow these from europe, it kind of comes over by the raw society of his garden  and he thinks it may feed the poor. But