A Good Morning’s Work
When Joseph Paxton, then just twenty-three, came to Chatsworth as Head Gardener he wasted no time getting settled in.
1826
Queen Victoria 1837-1901
When Joseph Paxton, then just twenty-three, came to Chatsworth as Head Gardener he wasted no time getting settled in.
1826
Queen Victoria 1837-1901
Joseph Paxton, one of Victorian Britain’s most celebrated men, designed the Crystal Palace for the Great Exhibition of 1851, gave the world its most popular banana, the Cavendish, and for thirty-two years cared for the superb gardens of his employer, William Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire, at Chatsworth House in Derbyshire. The two were firm friends, and the Duke remembered clearly how it all began.
I MADE his acquaintance at the Horticultural Society’s Garden at Chiswick, where he was placed in 1823. He was chiefly employed then in training the creepers and newly introduced plants on the walls there, which first excited my attention; and being in want of a gardener at Chatsworth, I asked Mr Sabine, who was then at the head of the establishment, whether he thought that young man would do? He said, “Young and untried,” but spoke so favourably that I had no doubt.
He came to Chatsworth in 1826. You shall have it in his own words: “I left London by the Comet coach for Chesterfield, and arrived at Chatsworth at half-past four o’clock in the morning of the 9th of May, 1826. As no person was to be seen at that early hour I got over the greenhouse gate by the old covered way, explored the pleasure-grounds, and looked round the outside of the house.
Express the ideas below in a single sentence, using different words as much as possible. Do not be satisfied with the first answer you think of; think of several, and choose the best.
The Duke wanted a head gardener at Chatsworth House. He thought Joseph Paxton would make a good one.
See if you can include one or more of these words in your answer.
ICandidate. IIPost. IIISeem.