‘Tradescant’s Diary’: Hugh Johnson; Sophieke Piebenga: ‘Of Gardens, Broad Rivers and an Unlikely Conversion: Villa Augustus, Dordrecht, The Netherlands’; Jacqueline McKeon: ‘Grief and Galanthus’; Barbara Segall: ‘Keeping Faith with a Legend: Woottens of Wenhaston’; Sandra Lawrence: ‘The Victorian Kitchen Garden: Part One, A Love Letter’; Charles Nelson: ‘Frank Miles’; Judith W. Page: ‘Cultivating Mary’s Meadow; Juliana Horatia Ewing and the Redemptive Gardens of Childhood’; Tom Petherick: ‘From the Home Patch’; Sam Llewellyn: ‘Digging with the Duchess: Outshooting Farrer’; Book Reviews: Charles Nelson on Robert Fortune: A Plant Hunter in the Orient by Alistair Watt; Timothy Mowl on The Most Glorious Prospect: Garden Visiting in Wales 1639–1900 by Bettina Harden and on Gardens of Court and Country: English Design 1630–1730 by David Jacques; Tim Longville on Orchid: A Cultural History by Jim Ender by; John Akeroyd on The Aliens Amoung Us by Leslie Anthony; The Editor’s Quarterly Book Bag: Snowdrop by Gail Harland; Rhododendron by Richard Milne; The Great Gardens of Cornwall: The People and their Plants by Tim Hubbard; Thenford: The Creation of an English Garden by Michael and Anne Heseltine; Dreamscapes: Inspiration and Beauty in Gardens Near and Far by Claire Takacs; Index to HORTUS issues 121–124 (2017). Front cover: Parrot Tulips, Iris, etc. wood engraving by Derek Setford