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Conventions of Gardening in Victorian England

What Victorian-Era Gardens Meant to the English

The Pemberton Family Gardens




"Gardens and flowers were cultivated about the houses and in fact the country became like and as civilised as any respectable village in England, with the few, very few, upper ten leading..."

- Dr. J. S. Helmcken on early Victoria gardens, in Reminiscences of Doctor John Sebastian Helmcken, 116.




The Pemberton Family Gardens

 

Gonzales

Yard at J. D. Pemberton's Estate, Gonzales


Photograph Courtesy of the BC Archives, Call Number A-07780

J. D. Pemberton, Gonzales Joseph Pemberton, Gonzales Frederick Pemberton, Mount Joy Frederick Pemberton, Mount Joy Frederick Pemberton, Mount Joy
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