How to Read a 240-Year-Old Plant Book
A visit to Oak Spring Garden in Northern Virginia
I hold in my hand a plant-filled manuscript from the 1780s that was handwritten by a British doctor who was buddies with Benjamin Franklin. It’s two-hundred-some pages of original watercolors accompanied by descriptions of each plant and their uses handwritten in a narrow margin on the left side of each page. The author and artist, Joshua Webster, organ…
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