Camp Rhododendron Recreational Historic District Form

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[Music] welcome to rhododendron week 2022. this year we're going to explore something of the historic links between the national botanic gardens here in glasnevin and at kilmakara it was in april of 1850 that a packet of seeds arrived to the keeper david moore and just recently he had completed this remarkable building the curvilinear range which he had commissioned from one of ireland's leading ironsmiths this packet of seeds contained rhododendrons from the sikkim himalaya they had been collected by joseph hooker joseph hooker was a botanist who had cut his teeth on an expedition to the antarctic islands some years previously and in 1847 he set off for the himalaya range in order to advance his career he was interested in going to an interesting botanical place and the sikkim himalaya suggested an unexplored area on the map it was a very fortuitous choice by joseph hooker to have visited the sikkim himalaya because it so happened that these valleys sitting under the third highest pea