{"id":2417,"date":"2025-04-16T06:45:55","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T06:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parastatal1.govmu.org\/ssrbg\/?page_id=2417"},"modified":"2025-04-16T07:26:48","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T07:26:48","slug":"avenue-charles-anthony-oconnor-1883-1963","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ssrbg.govmu.org\/ssrbg\/?page_id=2417","title":{"rendered":"Avenue Charles Anthony O\u2019Connor (1883 -1963)"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"2417\" class=\"elementor elementor-2417\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-abf7118 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"abf7118\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-388a657 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"388a657\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c2d218a elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"c2d218a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong><em>Tenure as Director of the Garden (1913-1917, 1924-1944)<\/em><\/strong><\/p><p>Charles Anthony O\u2019Connor was appointed Director of the Garden in 1913 by the Agricultural Services but the WW1\u2018s call for duty brought him to the Army for the next 10 years.<\/p><p>O\u2019 Connor retained his position for 20 years, though he was not too clerical and left little documentation about his works. We know about his great interest for the Garden from the testimonies of his successors.<\/p><p>When in 1924, O\u2019 Connor took control of the Garden, the extensive pruning of the over growing trees was performed and the lawns was redone.<\/p><p>The <em>\u201c Bassin des nenuphares\u201d;<\/em> set up by C\u00e9r\u00e9, was dragged out of its mud\u00a0 and the soil collected was use to fill up the marshy parts of the Garden.<\/p><p>In 1929, the Garden welcomed crowds of visitors who came to witness the flowering of the Talipot plants. It was the start of a series of flowerings that lasted for about 15 years.<\/p><p>In 1937, the bust of \u201c Bernandin de St Pierre\u201d was erected by the Society of Mauritian writers as a 200 years tribute \/ commemoration\u00a0 to the birth of the great writer.<\/p><p>In 1941 The\u00a0 <em>\u201cBassin des Lotus\u201d<\/em> was rehabilitated by O\u2019Connor to the state that we know it nowadays.<\/p><p>Charles Anthony O\u2019Connor introduced many varieties of fruit and food plants. Several species of orchids and ferns were also added to the Garden\u2019s Green house. Amongst the most popular plant introductions are the <em>Victoria amazonica; the Triplaris americana, <\/em>the dwarf coconut tree from Pemba Island and the chaulmoogra\u00a0 <em>Hydnocarpus Kurzil <\/em>whose essential oil is used as a treatment of\u00a0 leprosy.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tenure as Director of the Garden (1913-1917, 1924-1944) Charles Anthony O\u2019Connor was appointed Director of the Garden in 1913 by the Agricultural Services but the WW1\u2018s call for duty brought him to the Army for the next 10 years. O\u2019 Connor retained his position for 20 years, though he was not too clerical and left [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2417","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssrbg.govmu.org\/ssrbg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssrbg.govmu.org\/ssrbg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssrbg.govmu.org\/ssrbg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssrbg.govmu.org\/ssrbg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssrbg.govmu.org\/ssrbg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2417"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ssrbg.govmu.org\/ssrbg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2458,"href":"https:\/\/ssrbg.govmu.org\/ssrbg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2417\/revisions\/2458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssrbg.govmu.org\/ssrbg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}