Thomas Jefferson's Monticello
On a blistering good afternoon last summertime at Monticello , Peter Hatch walk toward a red-brick colonial marquee pierce with level - to - cap curve window , then past not bad row of untested Abelmoschus esculentus industrial plant ( Abelmoschus esculentus ) , then he turn back at an edging of tomato plant plant . Hatch , who drop the retiring 35 geezerhood restore Thomas Jefferson ’s fabled garden , was neither extend a radical of visitor ( virtually a half - million arrive every year ) through the 200 - some diversity of industrial plant , nor watch on the progression of the florescence caracalla dome or Texas dame black pepper ....