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Fletcher Moss Botanical Garden (known locally as Fletcher Moss) is situated in Didsbury, Manchester, England, between the River Mersey and Stenner Woods which many people lived near by. The park is named after local Alderman Fletcher Moss, who donated the park to the city of Manchester in 1919.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.manchester.gov.uk/site/scripts/documents_info.php?documentID=2236&pageNumber=4 )〕 It is part botanical garden and part wildlife habitat, but also offers recreational facilities such as tennis courts, rugby and football pitches and a cafe. ==History== The main part of the gardens is a walled rock garden which was laid out by the botanist Robert Wood Williamson on a south-facing slope. Williamson sold the gardens and rockery along with his house, called The Croft, to Alderman Fletcher Moss, in 1912.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://didsburycivicsociety.org.uk/didsbury-village/local-parks/fletcher-moss-gardens/ )〕 Fletcher Moss, born in July 1843, was a philanthropist who led many public works in Manchester; in 1915 he persuaded the philanthropist Andrew Carnegie to fund the construction of a public library in Didsbury. He lived in the Old Parsonage by St James's Church, Stenner Lane, having taken over residence from the vicar, a Rev W J Kidd, who left the property complaining it was haunted.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://didsburycivicsociety.org.uk/didsbury-village/local-parks/the-parsonage-gardens/ )〕 In 1919 he gave the gardens to the people of Manchester, declaring he had “determined to offer all that part of my property extending from the Fletcher Moss Playing Fields to Stenner Lane, to the corporation if I could retain the use of it for my life”. Fletcher Moss spent most of his time looking at old buildings, strangely, he wrote books and novels. Robert Williamson's old house, the Croft, was the location of the first meeting of the organisation later to become known as the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. In 1889, Emily Williamson née Bateson (Robert’s wife) formed a group called the ‘Plumage League’ to protest against the breeding of birds for plumage to be used in women's hats, a highly fashionable practice at the time. The group gained popularity and eventually amalgamated with the ‘Fur and Feather League’ in Croydon, and formed the RSPB.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.rspb.org.uk/about/history/index.aspx )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Fletcher Moss Botanical Garden」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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