{"id":2430,"date":"2025-04-16T07:19:03","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T07:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parastatal1.govmu.org\/ssrbg\/?page_id=2430"},"modified":"2025-04-16T07:43:33","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T07:43:33","slug":"avenue-joseph-theodore-van-keirsbilck-1856-1903","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ssrbg.govmu.org\/ssrbg\/?page_id=2430","title":{"rendered":"Avenue Joseph Theodore Van Keirsbilck (1856-1903)"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"2430\" class=\"elementor elementor-2430\" 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><em>Tenure as Director of the Garden<\/em> (1897-1903)<\/p><p>Mauritian Joseph Th Van Keirsbilck was working for the Gardens and Forestry Department since 1879 when he was appointed Director in 1897 (at the death of William Scott)<\/p><p>Throughout his career, Van Keirsbilck gave a special attention to the rose garden, whose varieties were renewed- The variety <em>\u201cClotilde Soupert\u201d <\/em>was widely popular during this period.<\/p><p>Van Keirsbilck had the greenhouse holding varieties of nearly extinct Orchids namely the <em>Agraecum palmiforme, Angraecum aphyllum and Aeranthus macrostachya<\/em> amongst the most beautiful of the indigenous collection.<\/p><p>In 1895, a Dancing Ball was organised and Viennese Lanterns; scattered around arrangements of flowers and ferns coming around the island, glowed away to give an atmosphere of <em>Thousands and One Nights<\/em> within the Garden.<\/p><p>A <em>\u201cFete de Nuit \u201c<\/em> hosting\u00a0 5000 visitors\u00a0 along the illuminated Avenues of the Garden was held for the Queen Victoria Diamond Jubilee in\u00a0 1897. The gates of Garden stayed opened till midnight for this celebration.<\/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 (1897-1903) Mauritian Joseph Th Van Keirsbilck was working for the Gardens and Forestry Department since 1879 when he was appointed Director in 1897 (at the death of William Scott) Throughout his career, Van Keirsbilck gave a special attention to the rose garden, whose varieties were renewed- The variety \u201cClotilde [&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-2430","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssrbg.govmu.org\/ssrbg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2430","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=2430"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ssrbg.govmu.org\/ssrbg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2531,"href":"https:\/\/ssrbg.govmu.org\/ssrbg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2430\/revisions\/2531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssrbg.govmu.org\/ssrbg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}