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A 100-year-old pavilion has been damaged and two others destroyed by an arsonist in Melbourne's Royal Botanic Gardens. Firefighters were called to a large blaze in the gardens just before 6am today and arrived to find two more fires burning. Professor Tim Vandals have damaged several trees, including a 400-year-old river red gum, in an attack at Melbourne's Royal Botanic Gardens. Gardens director Tim Entwisle says staff found the trees damaged yesterday morning. He says it appears vandals attempted to Swampy was the word for the undulating, waterside land where Melbourne's Royal Botanic Gardens were established in 1846. A "small beautiful valley" was how the site was then described, but it was also flood-prone with what some deemed a boggy "backwater World Architecture Festival 2013: this year's award for the best landscape project at the World Architecture Festival has gone to a botanical garden at a former quarry in Australia. Situated in a former sand quarry in Cranbourne, outside Melbourne As Tim Entwisle, director of Melbourne’s Royal Botanic Gardens (and former director of conservation, living collections & estates at Kew) put it recently in The Guardian: In Australia, we have an immense job ahead of us documenting life on our 7,000,000 A 100-year-old pavilion was damaged and two others destroyed by an arsonist in Melbourne's Royal Botanic Gardens. Firefighters were called to a large blaze in the gardens just before 6am on Saturday and arrived to find two more fires burning. Police said .

This content has not been independently verified. The day after the 2013 Winter Solstice in the Southern Hemisphere, a delightful sunny day was spent in the Melbourne Royal Botanic Gardens. The sun was out and many families and tourists took advantage of .

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