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From: dmm@calmasd.UUCP (David M. MacMillan)
Newsgroups: net.garden
Subject: Re: Botanical Gardens
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Date: Mon, 19-Aug-85 17:21:52 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 19 17:21:52 1985
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Keywords: San Francisco, Santa Cruz, National Trust


     Two more possibilities are the Conservatory in 
San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, and the Arboretum
(I think that's what its called) at U.C. Santa Cruz.

     I don't know what a serious horticulturalist would
think of the Golden Gate park Conservatory, but the building
itself is lovely - a 19th century glass-and-iron structure
imported by (I think) James Lick.  I confess I have never been
to the UCSC site, even in four years of attendance at said 
university.  I seem to recall that they had South African
plants, and were only open a day or two each week.  My details
could be wrong, but it does exist.

     I once found a book in the library which covered, with
pictures, all of the gardens operated by the National Trust
in England.  Not all of them were "botanical", of course.  You
might look for it - shouldn't be too hard to find.

                              David M. MacMillan


     Spelling correction to my (self-referential flame?) last
posting:   ... grandLY) architectural ...