A Botanical Garden.
» The oldest botanical work in the world has recently be.n found, sculptured on the walls of the great Teuaplu uf Kirnak at Thebes in Egypt. I- represents foreign plants brojgh-i home by Thotbniea 111., an Egyp.ian Sovereign, on hia return from a campaign in Arabia. The ■•ulpttß'ea show not only the plant or tree, bat the leaves, fruit, and getf-podi wparakely afcer the faihioo
of modern botanical treatises. This discovery is of the greatest imprrtance to historical botanist?, because the most direct proof of the ancient existence of a species ia to see its recognieable fragments in old buildings or deposits of a more or leas certain date. In suph a case fraud 13 practically impossible. The frtiiti; seeds, and different portions of plants taken from Egyptian tombs and the drawings which surround them in the Pyramids have given rise to imjfortant researches.— -Home paper.
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Manawatu Herald, 30 May 1896, Page 3
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148A Botanical Garden. Manawatu Herald, 30 May 1896, Page 3
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