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plants in the recently renovated Orangery and the new Winter Garden draw many visitors. The park itself is an oasis inside the old city, with many more interesting plants and trees.
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opened in 1990. A reconstruction of Clusius' original garden, based on a plant list dating from the end of the 16th century, was opened in 2009.
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behind the university building, for the benefit of the medical students. The request was granted in 1590, and the famous
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Hortus Botanicus Leiden in 1610. Print by Jan Cornelisz. Woudanus and Willem Isaacsz. van Swanenburg.
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was built between 1740 and 1744. From its original plan the Hortus was expanded in 1736 by
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From a scientific point of view, the Leiden Hortus is known for its collections of Asian
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appeared in the Hortus in the second half of the 17th century, the monumental
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Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies
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asked for permission from the mayor of Leiden to establish a
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Another major contribution to the collections was made by
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Hortus Botanicus (behind Observatory), ca. 1920-1940
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Leiden
botanical garden
Netherlands
Leiden Observatory


University of Leiden
botanist
Carolus Clusius
prefect
plant
collection
Dutch East India Company
tropical
Indies
sub-tropical
Cape Colony
Herman Boerhaave
Philipp Franz von Siebold
Deshima
Japan

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