{"id":9645,"date":"2022-05-10T06:59:20","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T05:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=9645"},"modified":"2022-05-10T06:59:20","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T05:59:20","slug":"erasmus-darwins-gardens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2022\/05\/10\/erasmus-darwins-gardens\/","title":{"rendered":"Erasmus Darwin&#8217;s Gardens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new local history book <em><a href=\"https:\/\/boydellandbrewer.com\/9781783276103\/erasmus-darwins-gardens\/\">Erasmus Darwin&#8217;s Gardens: Medicine, Agriculture and the Sciences in the Eighteenth Century<\/a><\/em>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The is the first full study of Erasmus Darwin&#8217;s gardening, horticulture and agriculture.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It shows him in historical context re: gardening and horticulture, looks at his two gardens in and near Lichfield, and at various related activities and currents-of-thought then ongoing around plants and medicine. Plants being at that time still a vital part of the healing arts for a practising doctor. Fascinating. Published last summer, though I&#8217;ve only just heard about it. A book for me to get around to eventually, and hopefully by that time there will be affordable secondhand copies knocking about.<\/p>\n<p>To be paired with the new <em>English Gardening Eccentrics<\/em>, from Yale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new local history book Erasmus Darwin&#8217;s Gardens: Medicine, Agriculture and the Sciences in the Eighteenth Century&#8230; The is the first full study of Erasmus Darwin&#8217;s gardening, horticulture and agriculture. It shows him in historical context re: gardening and horticulture, looks at his two gardens in and near Lichfield, and at various related activities and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}