Nothing living there as yet except the pike, and the Townspeople still cannot drink the water, so we're told by a nice lady in the local City Hall. Flora as well as fauna were marshalled into desirable and undesirable types. Plants, as much as animals, should have equal rights, with native plants much preferred over alien species. These theories of landscape and the natural garden, with the notion of rootedness in the soil also had an anti-Semitic content, with the Jews, like gypsies, being described as rootless nomads. This rubbish was hotly contested by some brave souls, along them Rudolf Borchardt, a Jew who died in 1942 trying to escape the Nazis.
Gardens connect people, times and latitudes.
To this poisonous nonsense came a retort from Rudolf Borchardt, who died trying to escape the Nazis in 1942.