Thomas Jefferson's Revolutionary Garden 250th Seed Collection

Thomas Jefferson's Revolutionary Garden 250th Seed CollectionThomas Jefferson was a passionate horticulturist and one of the first Americans to apply scientific methods by collecting and testing fruits and vegetables from around the world in order to evaluate and select those that would be useful and thrive in our country. This seed collection includes 8 plant stakes and 8 seed varieties: Costoluto Genovese Tomato, Bull Nose Pepper, McMahon's Bird Pepper, Yellow Spanish Onion, Tennis Ball Lettuce, West Indian

deep green foliage tinged red

this dramatic flower was not cultivated in European gardens until Robert Fortune discovered it in gardens in northern China and sent specimens to the London Horticultural Society in 1846

thus the botanical name

The Latin name

esculent rhubarb” in his vegetable garden on his April 13th birthday in 1809

it depicts great English country houses and public buildings

Jefferson advises President James Monroe on what later becomes known as the “Monroe Doctrine

Maroons who fled enslavement and resettled in wilderness spaces utilized the deep interior swamps to establish permanent

Jefferson's wheel cipher consisted of twenty-six cylindrical wooden pieces

by Pierre-Joseph Redouté

A Great Revolution in Church and State rewrites the history of American religious freedom in the founding era

also called 'Verte'