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La Mortola botanical garden, view of garden superintendent S. W. McLeod Braggins standing in front of a Giant Agave plant, Ventimiglia, Italy, 1929

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Title: La Mortola botanical garden, view of garden superintendent S. W. McLeod Braggins standing in front of a Giant Agave plant, Ventimiglia, Italy, 1929
Alternative Title: Giardini Botanici Hanbury
Contributor: Cornell, Ralph D
Date Created and/or Issued: April 1929
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Cornell (Ralph D.) papers
Rights Information: copyrighted
Copyright is owned by the UC Regents. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
The Giardini Botanici Hanbury (also known as La Mortola, or Hanbury Botanical Garden, or Villa Hanbury), on the cape of Mortola, are major botanical gardens operated by the University of Genoa. The gardens were founded by Sir Thomas Hanbury, a British entrepreneur, after he had made his fortune in China.
S. W. McLeod Braggins, superintendent of La Mortola botanical garden, standing in front of an Agave salmiana plant, which is almost twice his height. Agave salmiana, or Giant Agave, is a type of succulent.
Handwritten on edge of nitrate negative: Agave Salmiana - La Mortola - April - 1929S.W. McLeod Braggins - Director
Text from nitrate negative sleeve: La Mortola 1929
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1411_0659
ark:/21198/zz002b6n03
Language: English
Subject: Environment
Gardens
Culture
Agaves
Landscape architecture
International
Botanical gardens
Giardino Botanico Hanbury (Mortola, Italy)
Braggins, S. W. McLeod
Source: Ralph D. Cornell Papers, 1925-1972

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