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Theme For A Systematic Garden

from Ensonglopedia of Plants by John Hinton

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Augustin de Candolle
Was a systematic soul.
He liked to keep his plants in order.
By organising species
By their most obvious features
He worked out their relatedness. Well, sort ‘a.
Our study of genetics
Has replaced the theoretics
Behind the designs of Monsieur de Candolle,
But his work inspired
Andrew Murray’s much admired
Plant layout through which you’re about to take a stroll.

Systematic, systematic, oh systematic
Have you ever seen a panorama quite so cinematic?
Have you ever smelt a garden quite so aromatic?
Or heard of an endeavour quite so idiosynchratic

As Augustin de Candolle’s
Stab at filling all the holes
In our knowledge of the way plants are related,
Or as Andrew Murray’s bid
To concoct the curvy grid
Which in this botanic garden is located?

But they’ve shuffled things about
And they’ve chucked a few things out
As a result of analysing DNA,
They’ve also added lots
Of basal monocots,
Because we know much more about these plants today.

Systematic, systematic, oh systematic
Just because you’re scientific doesn’t mean you stay static
And since parts of Murray’s layout have proved problematic
This botanic garden’s opted to update his schematic

Systematic, systematic, oh systematic
Have you ever seen a panorama quite so cinematic?
Have you ever smelt a garden quite so aromatic?
Or heard of an endeavour quite so idiosynchratic
As Augustin and Andrew’s systematic?

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from Ensonglopedia of Plants, released November 7, 2018

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