Botanical Gardens And The Urban Future — Dumbarton Oaks
On June 12, 2018,
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Occupying 20 acres, the Gardens had been created in 1765 by Normal Robert Melville, governor of the British Caribbean islands, as a plant breeding centre and ‘to supply medicinal vegetation for the military and improve the life and economic system of the colony’. In a letter accompanying his draft survey, Domett mentioned he had set out various reserves to offer areas for a cemetery, police station, hospital, school and botanical garden. York Avenue gardens and Chatfield Farms are closed Thursday, Nov. Conservation performs an necessary function within the life of the botanic garden and Glasnevin is house to greater than … Read the rest