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Travel: Seductive scents on the Isle of Flowers On a heady tour of Madeira's exotic, bloom-filled gardens, Patricia Cleveland-Peck is captivated by the giant bird of paradise and the Mickey Mouse plants
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THE WERE five of us on the tour plus Mr Franca, our small, dapper
driver, who was probably the best driver in Madeira - rather
important with precipices yawning at the edge of the mountain roads.
But what really made this tour special was Dalila, our guide, a local
woman with a passion for plants.
She began by taking us for a walk around Funchal. Our first stop
was the garden of the President, to which the public are admitted
when he is not in residence. I had already been struck by the
luxuriance of the capital's trees, not only the blue-blossomed
jacarandas that line the roads, but also the ...
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; ...mathematician, 1603; Anthony Collins, philosopher and writer, 1729; The Rev John Strype, historian, 1737; Christian Furchtegott Gellert, poet and writer of fables, 1783; Dr Samuel Johnson, lexicographer, 1784; William Calcraft, shoemaker...
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