Glasgow Botanic Gardens
Victorian botanic garden with a domed iron glasshouse, tree ferns, orchids and a riverside arboretum.
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This guide to Glasgow Botanic Gardens follows a professor and a young gardener in the eighteen-twenties, when the garden still stood near Sauchiehall Street and its botany class was compulsory for medical students. It touches William Jackson Hooker, a field trip into the Scottish Highlands, and a letter of recommendation to London. Best heard near the arboretum, out past the glasshouses.
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