. Alden's Oxford guide : with key-plan of the University and city, and numerous engravings . ction with the college and University. Thepresent room was built from designs by the late Mr. Buckler, 1851. A new House for the Head Master, with accommodation for boarders, waserected in 1894 at the S. W. end of Magdalen bridge, see page 32. Crossing the road a little farther on, and descending some steps, we enter the 16. Botanic Garden by a handsome Gateway designed byInigo Jones in the rusticated Italian style, and bearing statuesof Charles I and 11. The Garden is open free from 7 till6
. Alden's Oxford guide : with key-plan of the University and city, and numerous engravings . ction with the college and University. Thepresent room was built from designs by the late Mr. Buckler, 1851. A new House for the Head Master, with accommodation for boarders, waserected in 1894 at the S. W. end of Magdalen bridge, see page 32. Crossing the road a little farther on, and descending some steps, we enter the 16. Botanic Garden by a handsome Gateway designed byInigo Jones in the rusticated Italian style, and bearing statuesof Charles I and 11. The Garden is open free from 7 till6 or earlier dusk: on Sundays in summer from 6 It was founded by the Earl of Danby in 1632, witha view especially to the faculty of medicine, and is the oldest Botanic Garden. 31 instituti^m of its kind in the country. It occupies five acresof ground, appropriated in 1231 for use as a Jews BuryingGround,* in lieu of a neighbouring piece formerly used by them,but granted by a charter of King Henry III as a site for theHospital of St. John, afterwards Magdalen College (ry).. Mfl^ a|ea T©Wer The grounds contain a large number of plants arranged in their naturalorders. The collection of rare tropical exotics is now housed in a fine range ofConservatories, erected 1S93-4, including houses for succulents, palms, andwater-lilies (the latter of European fame), a fernery, and a house devoted tothe culture of orchids. The Conservatories are open from 2 till 4. The Library is unique of its kind, and possesses many rare works of botanicalinterest. A new wing has just been added to the Daubeny laboratory forthe use of students in practical chemistry. The Library, Herbarium, and ? .%In mediaeval times Oxford had a large number of Jewish residents, but they were?expelled at the end of the thirteenth century. 32 Alden*s Oxford Guide. Museum may by visited from lo till 4, by permission of the Professor of Tradescant (see 2 and 56) is said to have been the first gard
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