Kate Teltscher

A guide to the apothecary’s garden

Clare Hickman takes us on a tour of John Coakley Lettsom’s Grove Hill and uncovers the close links between botany and medicine in 18th-century Britain

John Coakley Lettsom with his family in the garden of Grove Hill, Camberwell. [Wellcome collection/Alamy]

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

    Clare Hickman

    Yale, pp. 288, £30

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