Botanical Garden

This guide to the Botanical Garden in Zurich lingers over one small bed inside the medicinal plant collection, thirty-eight labels naming feelings like fear and loneliness rather than ailments. It follows Edward Bach, the British doctor who spent the years around 1930 walking the English countryside tasting dew off petals in search of a remedy for every shade of unease, until his death in 1936. Alongside it grow roughly seven hundred plants chosen for compounds science can verify. Look at the two rows side by side before you decide which one you trust.