Ploughing furrows we still follow; The huge debt today's gardens owe to the Victorians, in design and new plants, is investigated by Roger Clarke.(Gardening)

The Birmingham Post (England) | January 20, 2001 | Copyright

Byline: Roger Clarke

The Victorians gave us an age of invention, exotic introductions and an explosion of ideas in almost every walk of life, including the garden.

Many of the inventions failed to catch on, such as the doctor's cane introduced at the Great Exhibition of 1851. Perhaps it was the built-in enema and test tubes which put people off.

While we have the Millennium Dome, which caused hardly a ripple of excitement, apart from its remarkable cost, the Great Exhibition had Sir Joseph Paxton's Crystal Palace which was a sensation, the largest ...

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