{"id":2584,"date":"2025-04-16T10:08:30","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T10:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parastatal1.govmu.org\/ssrbg\/?page_id=2584"},"modified":"2025-04-16T10:09:42","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T10:09:42","slug":"avenue-william-scott-1859-1897","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ssrbg.govmu.org\/ssrbg\/?page_id=2584","title":{"rendered":"Avenue William Scott (1859-1897)"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"2584\" class=\"elementor elementor-2584\" 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\">\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\">\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-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 (1892-1897)<\/em><\/p><p>After having been the Assistant Director since 1880, William Scott became the Director of the Gardens and Forestry Services\/ Department In 1892. His first report concerned the losses of many plants caused by a very damaging cyclone that brought the island to its knees in the same year.<\/p><p>Scott\u2019s main mission was to to re-establish the gardens and to replace the lost varieties of plants such as the <em>Areca Sapida, Aralia papyrifera, Dipterocarpus laevis, Quercus robur and Thea paraguanensis<\/em>.<\/p><p>The Commercial gazette issued on the 5th of March 1896 testified as follow:<\/p><p><em>\u201cWe are very pleased by the well-being of the Garden\u2026 The crumbling huts have been replaced by elegant kiosks. The Garden bears a rich collection of precious plants. The Orchid collection increases on a daily basis, making it without contest, the biggest collection worldwide. We can\u2019t prevent ourselves from congratulating Mr Scott and his collaborators for the great work accomplished\u201d<\/em><\/p><p>In 1897, William Scott passed away at the age of 38; leaving behind in the Garden, the two oldest Bread Fruit trees of the island.<\/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 (1892-1897) After having been the Assistant Director since 1880, William Scott became the Director of the Gardens and Forestry Services\/ Department In 1892. His first report concerned the losses of many plants caused by a very damaging cyclone that brought the island to its knees in the same year. [&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-2584","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssrbg.govmu.org\/ssrbg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2584","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=2584"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ssrbg.govmu.org\/ssrbg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2636,"href":"https:\/\/ssrbg.govmu.org\/ssrbg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2584\/revisions\/2636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssrbg.govmu.org\/ssrbg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}