Original Loizo illustration, NEW PAPER 270gr Lithographic type.
Signed by the artist and dry stamp of origin affixed.

The park was bequeathed, by will, to the town hall of Hyères, by Olbius Hippolyte Antoine Riquier on April 13, 1868.
On July 14, 1872, on a joint idea of ​​the municipality and Albert Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, then director of the Jardin d'Acclimatation de Paris, an agreement was signed granting a twenty-six-year lease on the land of Clos Riquier in order to create an establishment where tropical species capable of acclimatizing in our regions could be cultivated, studied and created. The "Jardin d'Acclimatation de Hyères (Var) Clos-Ricquier" was an annex of the Jardin d'Acclimatation de Paris.4
Today, this seven-hectare park is both a pleasure garden and a botanical garden, planted with many rare exotic species such as Howea forsteriana and Araucaria araucana. Olbius-Riquier Park has been awarded the "Remarkable Garden" label. There is also an exotic greenhouse that houses many tropical species, such as palm trees, bamboo, banana trees, cacti, agaves, hibiscus, etc.
It was also in the park that one of the first real palm groves was created, at the end of the 19th century, by Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire5.
Major works took place between 1965 and 1991 after the park was abandoned in order to rehabilitate it.

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