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a large Araucaria cxcelsa, planted in 1840, pressing against the 
roof of a glass house built specially for it and containing nothing 
else. Also an interesting specimen of the Maidenhair Tree 
(Ginkgo biloba), planted in 1750 and with a large pistillate branch 
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Fic. 15. Padua. R. Orto Botanico. Goethe’s Palm (Chamacrops hiu- 
milis), planted in 1585. The palm is completely enclosed in the glass house 
in winter. (6971.) 
grafted onto the staminate trunk, thus bearing both kinds of flow- 
ers, and so artificially monoecious. This garden is affliated with 
the University of Padua, and the present director is Professor 
Giuseppe Gola. 
At the Padua Garden is one of the largest known collections of 
vortraits of botanists, dating from the first half of the thirteenth 
century. John Evelyn, the Diarist and author of the famous Silva 
(London, 1664), studied here in 1643, and we may note, in passing, 
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that Padua (the ancient Patavium) was the birthplace of the 
Roman historian, Livy. 
