The gardener's magazine and register of rural & domestic improvement (1826)
Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843, A. & R. Spottiswoode, printer, United States. Patent Office. Scientific Library, former owner DSI · London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green · leaf 422
t few individuals, who, incited either by alaudable curiosity or more enlightened views, have availedthemselves of her natural advantages, to introduce those bo-tanic treasures to which for nearly three centuries there hasbeen access ; though, like her, the ignorance, inappetence, andpoverty of her… … to the Tagus, a little below the Palace of Ajuda, and enjoysa full exposure to the south. It covers a space of about twoacres, surrounded by a high wall, round which on the insideand up the centre is a shady walk of iaurus nobilis, Cercis(Siliquastrum, Ceratonia siliqua, and Jiuglans regia. The…
