"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 left very
few written records about their gardens.
However, many photographs do exist, showing the gardens at
Gonzales, Mount Joy, and Wilmot House.
