Early British botanists and their gardens, based on unpublished writings of Goodyer, Tradescant, and others . JJ^es/ side sliviiHin; ilie blocked zvi/idozos. Soufli sideGOODYERS HOUSE IN THE SPALX, PETERSFIELD HOUSE IN PETERSFIELD 6s John Goodyers time, The Great House. The wordgreat was not synonymous with big; it simply meantof chief importance.^ In April 1917 a tablet was im-bedded in the brickwork of the front of the house :JOHN GOODYERBotanist and Royalist(1592-1664)lived here. In August last I made a pilgrimage to Petersfield to seethe house. The two-gabelled front facing the Spain wasa
Early British botanists and their gardens, based on unpublished writings of Goodyer, Tradescant, and others . JJ^es/ side sliviiHin; ilie blocked zvi/idozos. Soufli sideGOODYERS HOUSE IN THE SPALX, PETERSFIELD HOUSE IN PETERSFIELD 6s John Goodyers time, The Great House. The wordgreat was not synonymous with big; it simply meantof chief importance.^ In April 1917 a tablet was im-bedded in the brickwork of the front of the house :JOHN GOODYERBotanist and Royalist(1592-1664)lived here. In August last I made a pilgrimage to Petersfield to seethe house. The two-gabelled front facing the Spain wasa disappointment: it has been altered out of recognitionby the substitution of sash windows for the old casements :Goodyer would not know it. To south and west there arestill a few of the origfinal features. On the south an olddoorway, with stone jambs and flat-pointed arch-stone dated*755 leading out ipto the garden, is almost certainlythe orig^inal front door to the house. The old mullionedwindows, with splayed jambs of red brick, have mostlybeen covered with wall-tiling, though several, now walledup, are an architectural feature in the small yard at
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