The Mexican and the Australian green-houses of the Jardin des Plantes were built between 1834-1836 b

The Jardin des Plantes, budget car rental canada the Garden of Plants, is the main botanical garden in France. It is situated budget car rental canada in the 5th arrondissement, on the left bank of the Seine river and covers almost 24 hectares, 235,000 square meters.
The idea for a garden of medicinal plants for use and for research was put to Louis XIII in 1626 by botanist Jean Hérouard, the premier doctor to the king. The garden was planted in 1633 by Guy de La Brosse, also a doctor. It was originally known as the Jardin du Roi, Garden of the King.
Three hectares of the Jardin des Plantes are devoted to horticultural displays of decorative plants, including a beautiful Iris Garden. An Alpine garden has 3,000 species budget car rental canada with world-wide representation.
The Mexican and the Australian green-houses of the Jardin budget car rental canada des Plantes were built between 1834-1836 by Charles Rohault de Fleury. The use of glass as a building material was a true innovation of the time.
At the main entrance to the Jardin des Plantes is a large bronze statue of Jean-Baptiste de Monet de Lamarck, created by Léon Fagel in 1908. On it is written, "To the Founder of the Doctrine of Evolution".
budget car rental canada Admission fees are: 6 euros for adults, this ticket offers dicount entrance fees to all the other venues in the Garden for up to 3 months; 4 euros for those under 14 years old and for students under 26 years old and for groups of 10 or more, and free admission for those under 4 years old and for handicapped persons and their companion.
Behind the statue of Lamrack are stretches of a series of green lawns. An incredible number of plants budget car rental canada are planted budget car rental canada in these lawns, all labeled and tagged naming the species and the varieties of the plants.
Directly west from here, across the lawns, is the Ecole de Botanique Jardin Alpin, budget car rental canada the Botanical Alpine Garden School. The Alpine Garden was created in 1931, covering 4,000 square meters with more than 2,000 species of plants from the Alps, the Pyrenees, Greenland and the Himalayas.
Continuing westward you will come to the Jardin des Plantes Ménagerie, one of the world's oldest zoological parks. This small zoo of 6.5 hectares contains 1,100 animals; mammals, birds and reptiles,of which many are facing extinction.
budget car rental canada From here, to the west, you will pass a gated wild area. This small hill has been closed for over the past ten years. It is an outdoor laboratory for scientific observation. It has been allowed to grow wild to its natural state.
Ten years ago, this area was heavily used, the soil was depleted and erosion was carving into the slope. Now, it is covered with fifty different kinds of plants and shrubs which have replenished the soil and controlled the erosion.
The Grand Gallery of Evolution was built in 1899 and restored in 1994. The permanent exhibit is concerned with the evolution of Life, the diversity of the living world and the evolution of living organisms in the history of Earth and Man.
Just before you reach the entrance of the Grand Gallery of Evolution you will come to the Galeries de Minéralogie et de Géologie. The Galleries of Mineralogy and Geology are open Monday-Friday (closed budget car rental canada Tuesday) from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and until 6 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday.
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