{"id":134,"date":"2007-09-26T23:11:42","date_gmt":"2007-09-26T22:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aroundhitchin.net\/?p=134"},"modified":"2007-09-26T23:11:42","modified_gmt":"2007-09-26T22:11:42","slug":"william-ransom-physic-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/aroundhitchin.net\/?p=134","title":{"rendered":"William Ransom Physic Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\"><a title=\"physic-garden-2.jpg\" class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/aroundhitchin.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/physic-garden-2.jpg\" \/><a title=\"physic-garden-5.jpg\" class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/aroundhitchin.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/physic-garden-5.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"physic-garden-5.jpg\" id=\"image133\" src=\"http:\/\/aroundhitchin.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/physic-garden-5.thumbnail.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Physic<\/span> being Greek for &#8216;Body&#8217; I think belies the garden&#8217;s supposed usage. Ornamental, rather than functional. It is called the &#8216;William Ransom Physic Garden&#8217; after the 19th Century Millionaire Hitchin Physician and Chemist, William Ransom, who founded the pharmaceutical chemist in Bancroft (Which is now Sainsbury&#8217;s and the new Lavendar Fields apartments); and is laid out with plants and herbs that the 17th Century Herbaslist Nicholas Culpeper might have used medicinally too.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"physic-garden-5.jpg\" class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/aroundhitchin.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/physic-garden-5.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"physic-garden-2.jpg\" id=\"image132\" src=\"http:\/\/aroundhitchin.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/physic-garden-2.thumbnail.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The garden was opened by Prof Harold Ellis on 20th May 1990 after the land was given over from Hitchin Museum that lies immediately to it&#8217;s west. It opens daily as part of the Hitchin Museum <span style=\"font-style: italic\">Experience<\/span> and is a wonderful haven of tranquility. Note worthy is the Bronze\/Brass sundial that has been made to resemble a Physican&#8217;s\/Herbalist&#8217;s\/Chemist&#8217;s Mortar and Pestle. Art using form to immitate function. A nice touch I think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physic being Greek for &#8216;Body&#8217; I think belies the garden&#8217;s supposed usage. Ornamental, rather than functional. It is called the &#8216;William Ransom Physic Garden&#8217; after the 19th Century Millionaire Hitchin Physician and Chemist, William Ransom, who founded the pharmaceutical chemist in Bancroft (Which is now Sainsbury&#8217;s and the new Lavendar Fields apartments); and is laid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-parks-gardens","category-physic-garden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/aroundhitchin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/aroundhitchin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/aroundhitchin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aroundhitchin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aroundhitchin.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/aroundhitchin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/aroundhitchin.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aroundhitchin.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aroundhitchin.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}