Shaanxi Xi'an Botanical Garden
Research garden of collected Qinling flora, born from a mud-walled greenhouse and meticulous state ledgers.
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This guide to the Shaanxi Xi'an Botanical Garden opens on an October day in 1962, when villagers from the farming brigade next door arrive with draft animals and seed. It goes back to the garden's founding in 1958 beside the Big Wild Goose Pagoda, to the borrowed farmland it grew on, and to the unglamorous early science of mud-walled greenhouses and wild plants tested as food. Best heard standing among the trees, with the soil strips between them in view.
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