Oxford Botanic Garden
Walled seventeenth-century physic garden by a river, with glasshouses and an ornate stone gateway.
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This guide to Oxford Botanic Garden in Oxford follows a Sicilian plant from the volcanic ash of Mount Etna to a bed tended by Jacob Bobart the Younger around the turn of the seventeen hundreds. Along the way it touches the flood-prone ground beside the River Cherwell, a botanist named George Druce, and the express trains of the railway age. Best heard standing by the old stonework of the walled garden.
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