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On Capitol grounds in Washington, D.C., the United States Botanic Garden serves as both a public garden and a federal institution and is the nation’s oldest continually operating botanic garden. First proposed in 1816, it faltered after an early start but was revived by plants collected during Charles Wilkes’s United States Exploring Expedition and by other collectors such as Photius Fisk. Its living collections moved from the Old Patent Office to a Capitol-front garden and, in 1933, to the present site. Today it includes climate-controlled conservatory rooms, Bartholdi Park, the National Garden, and conservation work, while preserving notable links to nineteenth-century exploration.
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