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The Plant House University Botanic GardenGeneral information about the Cambridge University Botanic Garden can be found on Wikipedia.
The Garden’s own web site is:
http://www.botanic.cam.ac.uk/Botanic/Home.aspx
An unusual feature is The Brick Tree. This is a pear tree which after a storm in the 1960s was filled up with tar-covered bricks to stop the tree from rotting. (See 111 Places in Cambridge You Shouldn’t Miss p.38).
A B Gray noted in 1921 that the gates, erected in May 1909, were originally those of the old Physic Garden in Downing Street.
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Botanic Garden Blue Plaque
1901 census: University Botanic gardens Bateman Street
Richard Irwin Lynch
Harriet
Edith K, 16, b Cambridge
Richard S, 12, b Cambridge
Elizabeth R Revell, 22, servant, b Cambs
Gardeners House University Botanic Gardens:
Edgar John Allard, 24, foreman Botanic gardens, b Kent
Herbert Sutcliffe, boarder, 19, journeyman gardener, b Yorks
Sidney G Wild, 23, journeyman gardener, b Warwicks
William N Wright, 24, traveller horticultural specialist, b Derby
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1911 census:
Richard Irwin-Lynch, 60, curator Botanic Gardens, b Cornwall
Harriett, 53, b Devon
Rhoda May Elvin, servant, 18, servant, b Cambridge
John William Temple, head, 23, gardener, b Herts
Alfred Bertram Mellis, boarder, 20, b Stowmarket
Harold Allgood, 16, boarder, b Trumpington
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Botanic Gardens 1922 (Cambridgeshire Collection)
22/7/1922: The prospect of a serious deficiency at the Botanic Garden is almost a certainty; it is expected to be about £1,362. A suggestion has been made that the public should be charged a small fee for admission, but there is a natural objection to adopting this course, the garden having been open so long and so extensively used by the public. A suggested alternative is that the garden should close at 5.30. A further proposal is that the principal greenhouses should be closed and their contents sold. Something will have to be done. The Garden practically ranks as a public park. We are in danger of losing that park (Cambridge Press)
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2022: Painting by Hannah Davies
Spring Reflected (©2022 Hannah Davies) – a reflection through a window at Cambridge Botanic gardens
Rewinding (©2022 Hannah Davies) – a reflection through a window at Cambridge Botanic gardens
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