Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site calmasd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!sdcrdcf!sdcsvax!sdcc3!sdcc6!calmasd!dmm From: dmm@calmasd.UUCP (David M. MacMillan) Newsgroups: net.garden Subject: Re: Botanical Gardens Message-ID: <545@calmasd.UUCP> Date: Mon, 19-Aug-85 17:21:52 EDT Article-I.D.: calmasd.545 Posted: Mon Aug 19 17:21:52 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 25-Aug-85 04:44:16 EDT References: <857@mtuxo.UUCP> Reply-To: dmm@calmasd.UUCP (David M. MacMillan) Organization: Calma Company, San Diego, CA Lines: 25 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 ...