Sheffield, The Botanical Gardens 1893
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Marnock was appointed curator and he laid out the gardens in the fashionable 'gardenesque' style in which each shrub or tree was displayed to perfection in scattered plantings. The design of the glass pavilions is thought to have been the result of a collaboration between Marnock, Taylor, Paxton and leading garden designer John C Loudon. The resulting structure, almost 100 metres long in seven sections, incorporated three early examples of curvilinear glass pavilions. Originally the central pavilion was a tropical palm house with the two smaller pavilions at either end housing temperate plants. The gardens were opened to the public on 29 and 30 June and 4 and 5 July 1836, by ticket only - and until 1898 entry was limited to shareholders and annual subscribers, except for special fetes and galas.
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