'ITS SITUATION ... WAS EXQUISITE IN THE EXTREME ORNAMENTAL FLOWERS, SHRUBS AND TREES IN THE DARWIN FAMILY'S GARDEN AT THE MOUNT, SHREWSBURY, 1 838-1 865

摘要

Charles Darwin's birthplace was a mansion with a large garden and pleasure grounds on the outskirts of Shrewsbury, Shropshire, now known as The Mount. The Garden Diary kept by his father, Dr Robert Waring Darwin, and continued after the Doctor's deathby Charles's unmarried sister, Susan, provides a first-hand example of mid-nineteenth -century, upper-middle class, ornamental gardening taste, and lists the plants that were grown there, their propagation, training, care and planting and their sources.