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Old documents of the Garden show that the first part of the Garden was established near the present site of mud cypress trees and occupied 4 hectares of land and a small old building. This building and its successor have always been referred to as Pokerek. Older employees of the Garden told the story that this was because it was won in a poker game. Rumor has it that in 2011, Magdalena Swi\u0105der and Lidia Gnatowska, who were working at the time, met with Wojciech Fangor, formerly living at the Jan\u00f3wek estate, who told them this story:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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- Gron\u00f3wek (the building on Prawwka Street) was ours, and Pokerowo, behind the ponds, belonged to other people we didn't actually know, and Kowarski (Prof. F. Sz. Kowarski, painter, sculptor, educator), who before the uprising went to Skierniewice, and I to Rabka, rented this house after the liberation, and he called it Pokerowo. In the winter, during the war, when we lived with Kowarski in Jan\u00f3wek, it was boring and we played poker for a little money. And when he was a loser, he would play until morning to play, but when he won, he was tired and went to bed.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The beginning of the Botanical Garden's organizational structure was the Laboratory of Crop Genetic Resources at the Department of Plant Genetics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, which was based in Skierniewice. Before the laboratory became permanently established in Powsin, the scientific staff used to come on Saturdays for seminars, which were just held in the \"Old Pokerek.\" At that time the building was not sewered, so a duty officer was appointed, whose job was to bring water from the well and make tea for the colleagues. The well was located in the courtyard next to the building.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Construction of the \"New Pokerek,\" a modern office building with sewerage and heating, began in 1978. Several decades have passed since then, and the \"New Poker House\" has aged badly. Currently, the function of a modern office building has been taken over by the \"L\" building, called the \"Future Shop,\" but that's a topic for a completely different story....<\/div>\n
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  According to the Garden\u2019s old records, the first part of the Garden was established near where the swamp cypresses now stand and covered 4 hectares of land, along with a small, old building. That building and the one that replaced it have always been called \u201cPoker\u00f3wek.\u201d Longtime Garden employees have said that this is because it was won in a game of poker. Rumor has it that in 2011\u2026<\/p>","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":47911,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[426],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-50-lat-ogrodu"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":426,"label":"50 lat Ogrodu"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/ogrod.pan.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/001.-Pokerowek-w-1976-roku-973x683.jpg",973,683,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"Agnieszka Pfeiffer","author_link":"https:\/\/ogrod.pan.pl\/en\/author\/agnieszka-pfeiffer\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":426,"name":"50 lat Ogrodu","slug":"50-lat-ogrodu","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":426,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":46,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0","cat_ID":426,"category_count":46,"category_description":"","cat_name":"50 lat Ogrodu","category_nicename":"50-lat-ogrodu","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"meta_box":{"mb_document_group":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogrod.pan.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogrod.pan.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogrod.pan.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogrod.pan.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogrod.pan.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ogrod.pan.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogrod.pan.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogrod.pan.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogrod.pan.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogrod.pan.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}