Botanical garden

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article does not cite any references or sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (January 2009)

Botanical gardens^{[clarification needed]} grow a wide variety of plants primarily to categorize and document for scientific purposes. Botanists and horticulturalists tend the flora and maintain the garden's library and herbarium of dried and documented plant material. Botanical gardens may also serve to entertain and educate the public, upon whom many depend for funding. However, not all botanical gardens are open to the public: for example the Chelsea Physic Garden. According to the Botanic Gardens Conservation International, "Botanic gardens are institutions holding documented collections of living plants for the purposes of scientific research, conservation, display and education."^[1]

Contents 1 Research 2 Educational work 3 History 4 See also 5 References 5.1 Notes 5.2 Bibliography 6 See also 6.1 External links

[edit] Research

From the late 18th century onward, European botanical gardens sent plant-collecting expeditions to various parts of the world and published their findings. Voyages of exploration routinely included botanists for this purpose. Subsequent scientific work studied how these exotic plants might be adapted to grow in the garden's locale, how to classify them, and how to propagate rare or endangered species. The Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew, near London, has continuously published journals and more recently catalogues and databases since this time.

[edit] Educational work

Educational projects at botanical gardens range from introductions to plants that thrive in different environments to practical advice for the home gardener. Many have plant shops, selling flower, herb, and vegetable seedlings suitable for transplantation. Some gardens such as the UBC Botanical Garden and Centre for Plant Research and the Chicago Botanic Garden have plant breeding programs and introduce new plants to the horticultural trade.

Inside the United States Botanic Garden	Inside Kew Gardens Palm House	The Botanical Garden of Curitiba, Southern Brazil	The New Brunswick Botanical Garden, Canada
A botanical garden of Kitchener's Island, Aswan	University of British Columbia Botanical Garden	Inside the Botanical Garden of the University of Coimbra, Portugal	Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney, Australia
The Harry P. Leu Gardens in Orlando, Florida

[edit] History

The first modern botanical gardens were founded in Northern Italy in connection with universities:

• Pisa (1544) by Luca Ghini (1490-1556)
• Padua (1545)
• Florence (1545)
• Bologna (1567)

Other European towns and universities then followed suit:

• Valencia, Spain (1567)
• Leiden, Netherlands (1590)
• Montpellier, France (1593)
• Heidelberg, Germany (1597)
• Tübingen, Germany by Leonhart Fuchs
• Copenhagen, Denmark (1600)
• Oxford, England (1621)
• Uppsala, Sweden (1655)
• Hannover, Germany (1666)
• Madrid, Spain (1755)

Egypt has several botanical gardens. One them, the Orman Garden in Giza, is over 130 years old.

[edit] See also

• List of botanical gardens
• Plant collecting

In Egypt there are a number of botanical gardens of the Institute for Horticultural Research and best known are:

• Botanical Garden Antoniades Alexandria http://www.antoniades-alex.com/
• Botanical Garden Paswan
• Botanical Garden in Giza, Orman
• Botanical Garden Palace dome in Cairo

Botanical Garden Botanical Garden and its significance:

Botanic Gardens are not just working within the gardens of the word, but is the scientific institutions where the plant is a small portion of the park and the grassy side of the greenhouses, laboratories and library research, as well as leading botanical garden of ancient times a major role towards the division of plant science as it is the botanical scientific institutions reflect the extent of progress in any agricultural State of plant families, with Mahtlvp climatic region that grows by the existing park and to bring new and Aqlmtha species.

It is known that all the universities in the world today, followed by botanical gardens and their own recorded plant catalogs are currently about 800 botanical garden here in Egypt and there are four botanical gardens is supposed that it registered a research institute such as the horticulture specialist scientific research by the Department of botanical gardens, a section assigned to the supervision and development of these gardens, depending on the presidential decree No. 112 of 1986, which provides for the subordination of the parks, research parks department plant.

One of the most important functions of the garden plant:

1 - Definition and classification of different vegetation science. 2 - the discovery of unknown natural vegetation areas. 3 - cultivating new varieties of plants. 4 - conducting scientific research in many areas related to plant Kaltksim, education and others. 5 - Palmshabp to the care and promotion on an ongoing basis. 6 - attention to the library and provide them with further knowledge in this area. 7 - attention to the various research labs and with the latest scientific methods. 8 - Care of the models represented the Queen of all plant, whether growing in the Arctic regions or tropical and planted outside or inside the greenhouse. 9 - to preserve some natural areas for Environmental Studies. 10 - the organization of different kinds of information obtained from various plant science. 11 - Establishment, maintenance and preservation of the Gene Pool Depot genes to maintain the pure breeds in the case of the establishment of gene bank. 12 - Gardens of the great services in all social and cultural activities and economic development.

In general Valhaddaiq plant in Egypt (Orman - Island plant Paswan - the Dome - Antoniades), which is tracking the Botanic Gardens Research Institute of Horticultural Research

[edit] References

[edit] Notes

[edit] Bibliography

• Wyse Jackson, P.S.; and L.A. Sutherland (2000) (PDF online reproduction). International Agenda for Botanic Gardens in Conservation. Richmond, UK: Botanic Gardens Conservation International. ISBN 0-9520275-9-3. OCLC 46635384. http://www.bcn.es/medciencies/botanicgardens2004/abstracts/pdf_publicacions/IntenationaAgenda.pdf. 

[edit] See also

• Botanic garden

[edit] External links

• Botanic Gardens Conservation International The World's Largest Plant Conservation Network, working with 800 Botanic Gardens Worldwide.

v • d • e Horticulture and Gardening Gardens Garden · Garden design · Arboretum Horticulture Horticulture · Urban agriculture · Intercropping · Plant · Botany Organic Organic horticulture · Plant protection Pesticide · Weed control