This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 Excerpt: ... them by the Government has been reclaimed. The cost of keeping them up is defrayed by the State; and, as a matter of course, admission is free. They are very prettily laid out. A broad gravel walk leads from the entrance gate across the Gardens; between lawns formed of Sydney couch grass. This kind of grass is a fair ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 Excerpt: ... them by the Government has been reclaimed. The cost of keeping them up is defrayed by the State; and, as a matter of course, admission is free. They are very prettily laid out. A broad gravel walk leads from the entrance gate across the Gardens; between lawns formed of Sydney couch grass. This kind of grass is a fair substitute for English turf; beautifully verdant in winter and spring, it partially survives the dryness even of the South Australian summer. Greenhouses, full of flowering plants and small shrubs and ferns, are numerous; these, however, are locked, their contents being so arranged that they can be easily seen from the outside; there being a portion of the South Australian public, as is the. case at home, who cannot refrain from gathering flowers which do not belong to them. The Victoria lily, under the fostering care of the curator, Dr. Schomburgk, is successfully grown in a house adapted for the purpose. South Australia is very fortunate in having secured the services of the present curator, a distinguished botanist, who devotes himself to improving and beautifying the gardens. He is the brother of Sir Kobert Schomburgk, who re-discovered the Victoria Regina on the river Berbice, in English Guiana.t As far back as 1801 the German traveller Hsencke found the Victoria Regina on the Manore, a tributary of the Amazon. The plant was so surprisingly beautiful that Haencke, "in a transport of admiration, fell on his knees, and expressed aloud his sense of the power and magnificence of the Creator in His works." But Haencke perished, and his discoveries remained unknown in Europe. In 1827 the French naturalist D'Orbigny saw the lily on the Parana, but his discovery has never been published. Europe therefore owes to Sir Robert Schomburgk he...
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