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The Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam Botanical Garden (sometimes shortened to the SSR Botanical Garden), commonly known as the Pamplemousses Botanical Garden, is a popular tourist attraction in Pamplemousses, near Port Louis, Mauritius, and the oldest botanical garden in the Southern Hemisphere. Famous for its long pond of giant water lilies (''Victoria amazonica''), the garden was first constructed by Pierre Poivre (17191786) in 1770, and it covers an area of around 37 hectares. The garden, for a long time was ranked third among all the gardens that could be admired over the surface of the globe’, have been known successively as ‘Jardin de Mon Plaisir’, ‘Jardin des Plantes’, ‘Le Jardin National de l’Ile de France’, ‘Jardin Royal’, ‘Jardin Botanique des Pamplemousses’, and during the British colonisation, ‘The Royal Botanical Gardens of Pamplemousses’ and ‘The Royal Botanic Gardens, Pamplemousses’. On 17 September 1988 the garden was formally named “Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam Botanic Garden”, named after the first prime minister of Mauritius, as was the smaller SSR Botanical Garden of Curepipe. In addition to its giant waterlilies, the garden also features spices, ebonies, sugar canes, and 85 varieties of palms from Central America, Asia, Africa and the islands around the Indian Ocean. Many trees have been planted by world leaders and royalty, including Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, Indira Gandhi, François Mitterrand and Robert Mugabe.〔(Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam Garden ) Mysterra Magazine〕 These gardens are situated in the village of Pamplemousses which lies about seven miles northeast of the capital, Port Louis. ''Pamplemousse'' or ''pamplemoucier'' is the grapefruit tree (''Citrus x paradisi''), which grows in the region, possibly introduced by the Dutch from Java. ==Associated property ''Mon Plaisir''== The gardens, which now cover an area of about 62,040 acres, were set aside on 8 June 1729 for colonist P. Barmont 'barmond', who sold it on 3 January 1735 to Claude N. de Maupin, an overseer in the royal French East India Company. Subsequently, there were several other owners, and by 1805, the land had increased to about 121,000 acres. By 1868, the gardens themselves occupied 47,564 acres, with later additions to a total of 93,060 acres. Only 62,040 acres of garden remain, the rest being an experimental station. 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「Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam Botanical Garden」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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