Botanical Garden
Norway's oldest botanical garden, with Victorian glasshouses and thousands of plant species.
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This guide to the Palm House in Oslo's Botanical Garden at Tøyen follows one Canary Island date palm, grown from a seed collected in eighteen fifteen by Christen Smith, Norway's first professor of botany. It is a story about a glass building that was finished in eighteen sixty-eight and the tree that never quite fit inside it. Best heard standing at the entrance to the Palm House, looking at its roofline.
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