Handwritten China journal of Edmund Heller (4 of 5)
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Transcription
"From the Museum I dropped down into the Botanical Garden which is immediately below. The gardens are beautifully arranged in well kept lawns. Most of the trees & shrubs to my gratification were Hindhan species, well labelled, & many of the familiar Gen- era genera were represented Barberis, Hypericum, Colomaster etc. The curator was not in the Office where I noticed a herbarium & several native assistants. The afternoon was raining so that further sight seeing was not pleasant. There are no motors on Hargeelab or carriage cither all the roads well metates extend through the place all all of them are in places"