How to mock 18th century nobility – The Gardener’s Calendar

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‘A garden is a world and every tree and flower are men and women’

The Georgian newspapers loved nothing more than mocking the aristocracy, never more so than in this article we stumbled across in The Morning Herald, January 1781, entitled ‘Vegetable Kit-Cats’, otherwise known as ‘The Gardener’s Calendar’which attributed trees and flowers to some of thegreat and the not so good of the day so we thought it wou...