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A guide to the apothecary’s garden

29 January 2022

9:00 AM

29 January 2022

9:00 AM

The Doctor’s Garden: Medicine, Science, and Horticulture in Britain Clare Hickman

Yale, pp.288, 30

On 23 May 1804, two months before his daughter’s wedding, John Coakley Lettsom threw open his estate in Camberwell. Some 800 guests made their way to Grove Hill, with its panoramic views across the Thames to London. A leading doctor and noted philanthropist, a prolific author on matters medical, social and moral, Lettsom was famously convivial.

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