| VICTORIAN
GARDEN REDISCOVERED
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in the Garden |
A garden
designed by a renowned Victorian horticulturist has been rediscovered
in Jersey.
The site at La Chaire is said to have been pillaged by German troops
during the second world war.
Samuel
Curtis
Samuel
Curtis - a renowned Victorian garden designer - was born at Walworth
in Surrey in 1779.
By
1820 his garden in Essex included a display of green houses inspired
by those at Kew and a vast collection of trees.
Looking
for locations
During
the 1830's he started to look for a location where he could grow
outside many of the exotic plants being grown under glass at both
his home and at Kew.
After finding
the site at La Chaire, he developed the gardens and moved permanently
to Jersey with his daughter.
He
died in the island on the sixth of January 1860 and is buried in
the churchyard at St Martin's.
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