General Fulham Palace knowledge
In case you missed the party, here’s the quiz that tested our knowledge of the Palace. Have a go and see what you know! You can find the answers below.
1. What did Bishop Compton use as an alternative to pepper?
2. Which Bishop’s son stated of his father’s horticultural tendencies ‘his only fault was that he did not use the axe with sufficient freedom’?
3. Which Bishop built the walled garden?
4. Which magazine did our rising garden superstar Ellis Lewis recently appear in?
5. Name 4 types of tomato grown in the vinery (there are 14 in total)
6.
These tiles stamped:
‘REGISTERED 23RD OCT 1848
BY JOHN ROBERTS
34 EASTCHEAP LONDON’
were recovered during archaeological excavations in the vinery in 2024. What were they used to grow?
Answers
1. What did Bishop Compton use as an alternative to pepper? - Richard Bradley (1688-1732), the University of Cambridge’s first professor of botany, in his work New Improvements of Planting and Gardening (1719-20) commented when describing ‘Guinea Pepper’ (Capsicum frutescens) that ‘the common people in Italy pulverise the yellow seeds contain’d within the pods of this plant, and use it instead of pepper; and Dr Compton late Bishop of London, frequently eat of it in the same way’. Capsicum frutescens is the Tabasco pepper, so he obviously liked a bit of spice!
2. Which Bishop’s son stated of his father’s horticultural tendencies ‘his only fault was that he did not use the axe with sufficient freedom’? Alfred Blomfield – son of Bishop Blomfield.
3. Which Bishop built the walled garden? – Bishop Terick in 1766
4. Which magazine did our rising garden superstar Ellis Lewis recently appear in? – ‘Kitchen Garden’
5. Name 4 types of tomato grown in the vinery. – There are 14 in total: Tomatoes: 'Alicante', 'Artisan Bumble Bee Mix', 'Gardeners Delight', 'Golden Sunrise', ‘Rosella’, 'Rubylicious', 'Sungold', 'Sweet Aperitif', 'Sweet Million', 'Red Zebra', 'Burlesque' (beefsteak), 'Crimson Plum', 'indigo Rose', 'Shirley'
6.
These tiles stamped:
‘REGISTERED 23RD OCT 1848
BY JOHN ROBERTS
34 EASTCHEAP LONDON’
were recovered during archaeological excavations in the vinery. What were used to grow? - Strawberries