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Atkins built the “Soledad” sugar mill and soon after a research center dedicated to investigation and enhancement of sugar cane under the name: '''"Harvard Botanical Station for Tropical Research and Sugar Cane Investigation"'''. |
Atkins built the “Soledad” sugar mill and soon after a research center dedicated to investigation and enhancement of sugar cane under the name: '''"Harvard Botanical Station for Tropical Research and Sugar Cane Investigation"'''. |
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{{blockquote|The sugar entrepreneur Edwin F. Atkins and the Harvard botanists George L. Goodale, Oakes Ames and Thomas Barbour founded the Harvard Botanical Garden and Sugar Cane Experimental Station in Cuba in 1899. Atkins financed the work of the Harvard botanists who developed a cane variety resistant to disease. The Harvard botanists turned the Garden into a tropical laboratory wherein they planted trees from across the world.<ref>{{cite book|author=Fernandez-Prieto, L.|year=2018|chapter=Networks of American Experts in the Caribbean: The Harvard Botanic Station in Cuba (1898–1930)|title=''In: Pretel D., Camprubí L. (eds.)'' Technology and Globalisation|series=Palgrave Studies in Economic History|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan, Cham|doi=10.1007/978-3-319-75450-5_7}}</ref>}} |
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Mr. and Mrs. Atkins were also fond of plant collecting and soon afterwards started a tropical and rare species garden in the backyard of their estate where plants from as far as India and China were grown in tropical Cuba. |
Mr. and Mrs. Atkins were also fond of plant collecting and soon afterwards started a tropical and rare species garden in the backyard of their estate where plants from as far as India and China were grown in tropical Cuba. |
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Cienfuegos Province Botanical Garden, officially, Jardín Botánico de Cienfuegos, also known as Jardín Botánico Soledad, is located 14 kilometers from Cienfuegos city centre.
Overview
With 97 hectares it’s one of the oldest institutions of its kind on the island, founded in 1901 by Edwin F. Atkins[1] and his wife. They arrived in Cuba in 1899 in search of the island's most precious commodity: sugarcane.[2]
Atkins built the “Soledad” sugar mill and soon after a research center dedicated to investigation and enhancement of sugar cane under the name: "Harvard Botanical Station for Tropical Research and Sugar Cane Investigation".
The sugar entrepreneur Edwin F. Atkins and the Harvard botanists George L. Goodale, Oakes Ames and Thomas Barbour founded the Harvard Botanical Garden and Sugar Cane Experimental Station in Cuba in 1899. Atkins financed the work of the Harvard botanists who developed a cane variety resistant to disease. The Harvard botanists turned the Garden into a tropical laboratory wherein they planted trees from across the world.[3]
Mr. and Mrs. Atkins were also fond of plant collecting and soon afterwards started a tropical and rare species garden in the backyard of their estate where plants from as far as India and China were grown in tropical Cuba.
Today the garden has a large collection of tropical exotic plants (2000+ species) clustered in 670 genera and 125 botanical families. Among the most complete collections are orchids (400+), palms (230+), ficuses (65+) and bamboos (29).
References
- ^ Scott, Rebecca J. (2007). "A Cuban Connection: Edwin F. Atkins, Charles Francis Adams, Jr., and the Former Slaves of Soledad Plantation". Massachusetts Historical Review. 9: 7–34.
- ^ Jardín Botánico Soledad [1] Archived 2012-11-17 at the Wayback Machine. MOON Travel Guide
- ^ Fernandez-Prieto, L. (2018). "Networks of American Experts in the Caribbean: The Harvard Botanic Station in Cuba (1898–1930)". In: Pretel D., Camprubí L. (eds.) Technology and Globalisation. Palgrave Studies in Economic History. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-75450-5_7.
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