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The botanical gardens occupy a large park near Montreal's Olympic Stadium. They contain a greenhouse complex full of plants from around the world, and a number of large outdoor gardens, each with a specific theme. The greenhouses are open to visitors year round, but the outdoor gardens are bare and covered with snow from about November until about April.
The garden was founded in 1931, in the height of the Great Depression, by mayor Camillien Houde, after years of campaining by Brother Marie-Victorin. It serves to educate the public in general and students of horticulture in particular, it serves to conserve endangered plant species, and it is used for botanical research.
While it charges admission, city residents can obtain a pass granting free admission to the outdoor gardens, so many people visit regularly, even if only to sit under the trees. The outdoor areas are also free to everyone between 5 PM and nightfall. Many weddings are performed in the gardens every year. The nearest metro station is Pie-IX.
The Chinese Garden is constructed along the traditional lines for a Chinese garden. It has many winding paths, an artificial mountain, and a building in the Chinese style housing a collection of penjing that have generously been donated. The garden is populated with Chinese plants. It is the largest Chinese garden in the world outside China.
The Japanese Garden is populated with Japanese plants, and it contains a building in the Japanese style containing an exhibit on tea. The Japanese tea ceremony is performed there during the summer, and anyone can take classes to learn more about it. Other traditional Japanese arts, such as Iaido and Ikebana are occasionally demonstrated there as well. It also includes a large koiSan Jose, California. Koi ( from Japanese koi are ornamental domesticated varieties of the common carp Cyprinus carpio''. If you travel to Japan and tell your friends that you love koi, they might invite you to eat the dull gray fish that inhabits the wat pond; visitors often feed the koi.
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The Alpine Garden has several paths winding over a rocky outcrop which is covered with tiny, delicate alpine plants.
Other gardens include the poisonous plants garden (which has samples of various poisonous plants along with information on the effects of various doses), the flowery brook, and an arboretumAn arboretum is a botanical garden primarily devoted to trees and other woody plants, forming a living collection of trees intended at least partly for scientific study. An arboretum specialising in growing conifers is known as a pinetum. The term 'arbore. The botanical gardens are also the home to some wildlife; primarily squirrelSeveral, see text Squirrel is the common name for rodents of the family Sciuridae. In everyday speech in the English-speaking world it usually refers to members of the genera Sciurus and Tamasciurus''. These typical members of the family are tree squirrels and duckDendrocygninae Oxyurinae Anatinae Merginae The word duck was also used as slang for the WWII amphibious vehicle called a DUKW. The word duck meaning the bird, came from the verb "to duck" meaning to bend down as if to get under something, because of the ws, other slightly less common animals such as turtles and herons also live there.
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