Jardin d'Essai. Avenue of bamboos
BPLDC no.: 08_04_000372
Page Title: Jardin d'Essai. Avenue of bamboos
Collection: Tupper Scrapbooks Collection
Album: Volume 1: Algeria.
Call no.: 4098B.104 v1 (p. 48)
Creator: Tupper, William Vaughn
Photographer:
Genre: Scrapbooks; Albumen prints
Extent: 1 photographic print mounted on page : albumen ; page 33 x 39 cm.
Description: Scrapbook page contains one photograph showing a bamboo-lined avenue in Algeria, with annotated information about the history of the area as well as the different types of trees found there.
Transcription: Jardin d'Essai. Begun in 1832. It is one of the prettiest gardens in existence. There are avenues of stately plane trees. Avenues of Chinese bamboos making an arch over ones head. Avenues of Japanese palms, of African palms, immense pagoda fig trees, Madagasca [i.e. Madagascan] cypresses, trees from Java, Cuba, Chili [i.e. Chile], Brazil, Cape, East India etc. The roses excel even those of Andalusia & Carolina. The garden is managed by a French company and the pots of palms sold a La Madeleine Paris & Covent Garden London come from here. $20,000 worth are sold each year.
Notes: Page description supplied by cataloger, derived from captions and/or annotated information.; Caption on image: 180G
BPL Department: Print Department
Rights: No known restrictions.