Journal articles: 'University Botanic Gardens (University of Birmingham)'

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Gerlach, Gary G. "Cooperative Education and Internships at the Birmingham Botanical Gardens." HortScience 32, no. 4 (July 1997): 591C—591. http://dx.doi.org/10.21273/hortsci.32.4.591c.

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The BBG is a facility of the City of Birmingham Park and Recreation Board and operates as a coalition of the City's professional staff and resources as well as those of the Botanical Society (Friends), Alabama Cooperative Extension System (both groups maintaining offices at the BBG), 2 local community colleges, 12 specialized plant societies (that aid in the maintenance of collections), 100+ garden clubs, numerous related groups, and a strong community support. Current discussions with the University of Alabama in Birmingham will lead to certified programs at the Gardens. There are no formal contracts but informal agreements that are formed for each project. The Society sponsored the 1980 Master Plan and updates it every 10 years, employs a professional educator, and sponsors numerous special activities and programs, many in conjunction with the previously mentioned groups. Internships are hired and paid through the City. Students are rotated weekly through the various operations of the Gardens, including administration, education, taxonomy, and the Library. A special project is done in the area of interest to the student.

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Doughty, Phil. "Lost & Found: 204. British Association's Collection of Photographs of Geological Interest." Geological Curator 5, no. 6 (August 1991): 230–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.55468/gc661.

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Phil Doughty (Ulster Museum, Botanic Gardens, Belfast BT9 5AB) writes: '1 can provide the information being sought by Peter James of the Birmingham Photographic Heritage Project on the whereabouts of the British Association's Collection of Photographs of Geological Interest The photographs were located by GCG - yes the Group - at a meeting held in the Geology Department of the University of Southampton during the Museums Association's Conference in south Hampshire in 1979. -230- Professor Frank Hodson was showing us round their basement store, where I located brown paper parcels labelled 'British Association Photographic Books'. Frank untied a few until I had located the Irish books which were subsequently lodged here, and a catalogue containing the...

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Atanassova, Juliana. "University Botanic Gardens – a historical overview." Annual of Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", Faculty of Biology, Book 2 – Botany 106 (2022): 5–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.60066/gsu.biofac.bot.106.5-12.

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The Botanic Garden of the Sofia University „Saint Kliment Ohridski“ in Sofia, already boasts a 130-year history. The article provides a brief overview of the founding and development of the University Botanic Gardens and its scientific, educational, cultural, and social significance.

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Chernysheva, Tatyana. "The role of university botanic gardens in implementing the third mission." E3S Web of Conferences 296 (2021): 03002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202129603002.

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The paper reveals a new dimension of implementing the third mission of a university - through the activities rolled-out by Russian universities in their botanic gardens. For urban residents, botanic gardens, in addition to their main functions, are gradually becoming a place for integrating different population groups, from schoolchildren to pensioners. These public spaces conduct active educational policies aimed at many segments of a broader university community, taking into account the experience of regional environmental organizations and international Associations of Botanic Gardens. The author argues that the ecological vector is a priority for productive communication of a university with regional and global audiences at the site of its Botanic Garden, which becomes a measure of the university entering upon the way of sustainable development

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Stephens, Matt, Melody Gray, Edward Moydell, Julie Paul, Tree Sturman, Abby Hird, Sonya Lepper, Cate Prestowitz, Casey Sharber, and Aaron Steil. "ENDOWMENT STRATEGIES FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE BOTANIC GARDENS." HortScience 41, no. 3 (June 2006): 495A—495. http://dx.doi.org/10.21273/hortsci.41.3.495a.

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The University of Delaware Botanic Gardens (UDBG) is at a critical juncture in its development. Momentum of shared interest at the University of Delaware and the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources favors the Gardens' advancement as an institution. Having identified endowment planning as a critical and immediate need for UDBG, the goal of this research was to gather pertinent institutional knowledge from select university-based public gardens throughout the United States that had already created an endowment. Key staff were interviewed during the summer of 2005 at Cornell Plantations, JC Raulston Arboretum, Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, and the State Botanic Garden of Georgia. Valuable insights into the procurement and management of endowments within a university-based garden environment were gained through these interviews. Utilizing these results, as well as input from an advisory Task Force, specific recommendations for the University of Delaware Botanic Gardens were made from within the following topic areas: Organizational Structure, Planning, Current Strategies, The Endowment, and The Donor.

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Meyer, Mary Hockenberry, Stan Hokanson, Susan Galatowitsch, and James Luby. "Public Gardens: Fulfilling the University's Research Mission." HortTechnology 20, no. 3 (June 2010): 522–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.21273/horttech.20.3.522.

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Research at botanic gardens, from medieval times to the present day, has evolved to encompass a wide range of topics. The Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, part of the University of Minnesota, is an example of a diverse, successful research program within a public university garden setting. Collaboration, mission, organization, and publications are keys to a successful research program. Future research for public gardens, including putting collections to work for conservation, understanding global change, ecological genomics, restoration ecology, seed banking, and citizen science are collaborative ideas for all botanic gardens to consider. Research can strengthen the botanic garden's role by providing public value while improving ties to the university.

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Ives, Julian. "Biological controls in botanic gardens." Sibbaldia: the International Journal of Botanic Garden Horticulture, no. 18 (February 21, 2020): 117–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.24823/sibbaldia.2020.292.

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Biological control of insect pests in horticulture is evolving rapidly but use in botanic gardens can be difficult due to the variety and extent of the plant collections held at these gardens. This paper describes examples of successful biological control of mealybug species at the Cambridge University Botanic Garden and Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and looks at some of the challenges to extending the use of such controls in all environments.

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Grosse-Veldmann, Bernadette, Nadja Korotkova, Bernhard Reinken, Wolfram Lobin, and Wilhelm Barthlott. "Amborella trichopoda." Sibbaldia: the International Journal of Botanic Garden Horticulture, no. 9 (October 31, 2011): 143–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.24823/sibbaldia.2011.127.

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Amborella trichopoda Baill., the most ancestral angiosperm, has been successfully cultivated in the Botanic Gardens of the University of Bonn in Germany (BG Bonn) for more than a decade. The distribution of this plant – limited to the South Pacific island of New Caledonia – and its cultivation has so far only been achieved in a few botanic gardens. This paper provides details about the cultivation and propagation of Amborella, and information on its cultivation in botanic gardens around the world. The authors propose that the collections of this plant in botanic gardens could be used to establish ex situ conservation collections.

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Upson, Tim, and Peter Kerley. "The Winter Garden at Cambridge University Botanic Garden." Sibbaldia: the International Journal of Botanic Garden Horticulture, no. 5 (October 31, 2007): 155–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.24823/sibbaldia.2007.15.

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The history of the Winter Gardens at Cambridge University Botanic Garden is described with particular reference to the one planted in 1978–79 with discussion of the design philosophy, planting and current management practices needed to maintain this maturing garden.

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Lobin, Wolfram, Michael Neumann, Markus Radscheit, and Wilhelm Barthlott. "The Cultivation of Titan Arum (Amorphophallus titanum) :." Sibbaldia: the International Journal of Botanic Garden Horticulture, no. 5 (October 31, 2007): 69–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.24823/sibbaldia.2007.8.

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One of the most exciting plant species is the Titan Arum, Amorphophallus titanum, which can truly be regarded as a flagship species for botanic gardens. Wild populations suffer from an increasing pressure on their natural habitat, but botanic gardens can play an important role in the ex-situ conservation of the species. The cultivation of A. titanum is not easy but it offers an irresistible challenge for any keen horticulturist. The University of Bonn Botanic Gardens (Germany) has more than seventy years of experience in the cultivation of this giant and the purpose of this paper is to help the botanic garden community to achieve success in the cultivation of this fascinating plant.

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Badley, Cathy, David J. Hill, and Nicholas Wray. "Inadequate Accession Data Compromises the Conservation Value of Plant Collections." Sibbaldia: the International Journal of Botanic Garden Horticulture, no. 2 (October 31, 2004): 5–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.24823/sibbaldia.2004.97.

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The accession data quality and record keeping at 21 botanic gardens, 35 gardens with National Council for the Conservation of Plants and Gardens (NCCPG) collections, and eight other significant gardens in the UK was surveyed in January 2001, with special reference to Hebe.Nearly half of all the gardens in the survey had no written policies or procedures on accessions. This correlated significantly (p<0.05) with poorer quality accession data. Only 14% of botanicgardens and 17% of NCCPG gardens recorded all the minimum accession data fields recommended by the Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI). Only a third of all types of garden stored all their data on computer; a third of the botanic gardens updated their data less frequently than every two years, and the information transferred from the accession records to labels was sometimes scant. There was a significant negative correlation between the average number of accessions per member of staff, and accession data quality — more than 250accessions per member of staff often corresponding to poor data quality.We challenge the view that botanic gardens should only concentrate on plants from the local indigenous flora (Action Plan for Botanic Gardens in the European Union, BGCI 2000) becauseit restricts the educational role and research potential of the garden and limits the world-wide collections of endangered species being kept safe from indigenous hazards. However, with a need to limit the plants in gardens to a manageable number with good records, criteria will be needed to select which species to represent in collections. A list of criteria, developed from areview of the Hebe collection in the University of Bristol Botanic Garden, is suggested for all plants in botanic and similar gardens.

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Bavcon, Jože, and Blanka Ravnjak. "Seed banks as a partnership for global plant conservation." Acta Biologica Slovenica 57, no. 1 (July 1, 2014): 3–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.14720/abs.57.1.15539.

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A seed bank is a collection of plant seeds stored under appropriate conditions in which seeds are periodically checked for their germination ability – viability of seeds. Botanic gardens have been issuing lists of seeds (Index seminum) for several centuries. This old tradition has also encouraged the formation of botanic gardens seed banks. University Botanic Gardens Ljubljana actively works on plant diversity conservation. In 2013, the Garden participated in the collection of seeds for the Millennium Seed Bank in order to contribute to a faster achievement of the goal of seed banking of 25 % of the total world flora. For this reason, in 2013, seeds of 59 target plant species of Slovenian flora (already selected before for routine collection) and seeds of 24 other randomly selected plant species for the Millennium Seed Bank were collected.

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Smyth, Noeleen. "Implementing Target 10 of the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation at the National Botanic Gardens of Ireland." Sibbaldia: the International Journal of Botanic Garden Horticulture, no. 11 (October 29, 2013): 125–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.24823/sibbaldia.2013.56.

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The importance of managing invasive non-native species (INNS), be it through eradication or limitation, is set out in the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) which states that parties to the Convention should ‘prevent, control or eradicate alien species’ (IUCN, 2000). Unfortunately there is some evidence that botanic gardens have been implicated in being responsible for the early introduction of many environmental weeds listed by IUCN as among the worst invasive species (Hulme, 2011). Stronger global networking between botanic gardens to tackle the problem of INNS has been suggested by Hulme. Botanic gardens have a remit to meet Target 10 of the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSPC) and the European Strategy for Plant Conservation (ESPC) Targets 10.1 and 10.2. The National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, in conjunction with University College Dublin and Mayo and Fingal County Councils, with grant funding from the Heritage Council, has monitored populations then researched and implemented effective control methods of two escaped garden plants: Hottentot fig (Carpobrotus edulis (L.) N.E. Br.) and giant rhubarb (Gunnera tinctoria (Molina) Mirb.) in EU protected habitats and in Special Areas of Conservation (SACs) in Ireland. Chemical treatments were trialled and tested in the field for both species, and successful regeneration of native vegetation in formerly invaded areas has been observed since treatments began in 2009.

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HICKMAN, CLARE. "‘The want of a proper Gardiner’: late Georgian Scottish botanic gardeners as intermediaries of medical and scientific knowledge." British Journal for the History of Science 52, no. 4 (October 4, 2019): 543–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0007087419000451.

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AbstractOften overlooked by historians, specialist gardeners with an expert understanding of both native and exotic plant material were central to the teaching and research activities of university botanic gardens. In this article various interrelationships in the late Georgian period will be examined: between the gardener, the garden, the botanic collection, the medical school and ways of knowing. Foregrounding gardeners’ narratives will shed light on the ways in which botanic material was gathered and utilized for teaching and research purposes, particularly for medical students, as well as highlighting the importance of the garden as a repository of botanic material for the classroom. In this way, the blurred lines between art and science, skill and scholarly activity, and shared pedagogic practices between botany and anatomy will be revealed.

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Gillbank, Linden. "University Botany in Colonial Victoria: Frederick McCoy's Botanical Classes and Collections at the University of Melbourne." Historical Records of Australian Science 19, no. 1 (2008): 53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/hr08002.

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Botany was part of the broad intellectual territory of one of the University of Melbourne's four foundation chairs. From his appointment in 1854 until his death in 1899, Frederick McCoy was the Professor of Natural Science and, for most of that time, also honorary Director of the Colony of Victoria's National Museum. McCoy gained ideas about botany and botanic gardens and museums while studying and working at the University of Cambridge, where he attended Professor John Stevens Henslow's botany lectures in 1847. With help from Henslow and Victoria's Government Botanist, Ferdinand Mueller, McCoy acquired botanical collections and developed a class (system) garden at the University of Melbourne, where he taught botany to arts and medical students from 1863 until the establishment of the science degree and arrival of the Professor of Biology in 1887 left him only a rarely-taken botanical subject.

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Rahman, M. Oliur, Md Abul Hassan, Md Manzurul Kadir Mia, and Ahmed Mozaharul Huq. "A synoptical account of the Sterculiaceae in Bangladesh." Bangladesh Journal of Plant Taxonomy 19, no. 1 (June 20, 2012): 63–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/bjpt.v19i1.10943.

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Taxonomy, updated nomenclature and occurrence of the species belonging to the family Sterculiaceae in Bangladesh have been presented. Detailed herbarium study at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K), Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh (E), British Museum (BM), Bangladesh National Herbarium (DACB) and Dhaka University Salar Khan Herbarium (DUSH) has revealed the occurrence of 32 species under 15 genera of the Sterculiaceae in Bangladesh. The correct name, important synonym(s), salient diagnostic characteristics, specimens examined and distributional notes have been provided for each species. Dichotomous bracketed keys have also been presented for identification of genera and species.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/bjpt.v19i1.10943Bangladesh J. Plant Taxon. 19(1): 63-78, 2012 (June)

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Downing, Mark, and Roland K. Roberts. "Estimating Visitor Use-Value of Arboreta: The Case of the University of Tennessee Arboretum2." Journal of Environmental Horticulture 9, no. 4 (December 1, 1991): 207–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.24266/0738-2898-9.4.207.

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Abstract Many studies have estimated demand functions for visits to recreation sites. Several included commonly defined recreation-based areas such as beaches, parks, lakes and rivers, but excluded examination of horticulturally significant sites such as botanic gardens and arboreta. This study estimates user-demand and consumer surplus for visits to the University of Tennessee Arboretum by the travel cost method. Results suggest that travel cost and income of consumers are important determinants of demand, at least in the case of visits to the University of Tennessee Arboretum, and that consumer-use value may be derived from this demand. Consumer-use value is estimated to be $20.43 per person.

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Stephens, Matthew, Aaron Steil, Melody Gray, Abby Hird, Sonya Lepper, Edward Moydell, Julie Paul, et al. "Endowment Strategies for the University of Delaware Botanic Garden through Case Study Analysis." HortTechnology 16, no. 4 (January 2006): 570–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.21273/horttech.16.4.0570.

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The University of Delaware Botanic Garden (UDBG), located in Newark, is in transition, moving from its initial founding as a public garden by dedicated faculty and a volunteer group to an organized and efficient entity with widely recognized achievements and reputation. To make this leap, UDBG is faced with the particular need for an endowment to fund its operations, staff, and collections to continue future success. An endowment will provide a steady source of monetary support to operate and maintain UDBG. This study was conducted to discover the best endowment strategies based on the experience of four other public gardens associated with universities. These interviews were compiled and compared. The resulting recommendations for UDBG are based on the following five areas: organizational structure, planning, current strategies, the endowment, and the donor. The insights into how all five of these areas affect endowments may also be beneficial to other university public horticulture entities seeking to build an endowment.

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McDonald, S. W. "The Life and Times of James Jeffray, Regius Professor of Anatomy, University of Glasgow 1790–1848." Scottish Medical Journal 40, no. 4 (August 1995): 119–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/003693309504000406.

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James Jeffray, Regius Professor of Anatomy at Glasgow University from 1790–1848, worked at a time when the only legal supply of material for dissection was the bodies of hanged criminals. The Napoleonic Wars created a large demand for anatomical teaching and Jeffray saw the height of the body-snatching era. At Glasgow University, Jeffray supervised the establishment of the Hunterian Museum, negotiated a separate Chair of Botany and was a prime mover in founding the Botanic Gardens. The fetal circulation was a special interest and he is remembered as the inventor of the chain saw, which he designed from a watch chain for use in excision of diseased joints in an effort to prevent amputation.

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Walsby, Anthony E. "Gordon Elliott Fogg CBE. 26 April 1919 — 30 January 2005." Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 52 (January 2006): 97–116. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbm.2006.0008.

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Gordon Elliott (Tony) Fogg was a botanist who pioneered studies in cyanobacterial heterocysts, nitrogen fixation, extracellular products of algae and phytoplankton ecophysiology. He was a gifted lecturer and writer, and the author of books on algae, phytoplankton ecology and Antarctic science. After many years in Botany at University College and then Westfield College in the University of London, he completed his career in Marine Biology at the University College of North Wales. His natural diplomacy led to appointments on many scientific committees, where he was valued for his succinct observations and his ability to settle disputes behind the scenes. He made important contributions to many organizations, including the Institute of Biology, the Freshwater Biological Association, the British Antarctic Survey and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. He was artistic, a fine water-colourist, and he enjoyed walking in Anglesey and Snowdonia.

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Klett, James. "(135) Planttalk Colorado™: 24-hour Answers for Gardeners." HortScience 40, no. 4 (July 2005): 995C—995. http://dx.doi.org/10.21273/hortsci.40.4.995c.

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Planttalk Colorado™, established in Fall 1997, is a 24-hour toll-free automated phone service available in English and Spanish and website that provides gardening consumers with reliable and timely information on a variety of horticultural and related areas topics. Planttalk Colorado™ is unique in that it is sponsored by Colorado State University Cooperative Extension, Denver Botanic Gardens and the Green Industries of Colorado. Over 450 topics edited and approved by all entities ranging from general gardening to emerging issues, such as new disease and insect concerns. Recent efforts have included translation of a portion of the scripts into Spanish to reach a larger audience and the rising Hispanic population in the state and region. Marketing efforts have evolved to include a website with photos and illustrations along with linkages to other university research-based information. Other marketing tools have included: free incentives, mass media marketing, and tabletop and banner displays for use at educational functions. A review of phone usage vs. web hits will be discussed. Web hits averaged 92,528 monthly in 2004 vs. phone usage averaged 309 monthly in 2004. Consumers have the ability to post comments on both web and phone systems. They can rank the overall program on the web. Funding is a cooperative effort between all three partners. Planttalk Colorado™ has increased visibility to Cooperative Extension and built partnerships with the Green Industry of Colorado and Denver Botanic Gardens for delivering reliable and accurate information to all citizens of Colorado and beyond.

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Montes Espín, Rosalina, Ileana Fernández-Santana, Amanda Lucía Vitlloch Ramos, Leosveli Vasallo Rodríguez, Mario A. Lima Cruz, and Javier Francisco-Ortega. "The expeditions of the research yacht Utowana and the building of the plant living collections of the oldest botanical garden of Cuba." Webbia 76, no. 2 (September 7, 2021): 143–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/jopt-10929.

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Cienfuegos Botanical Garden is the oldest functioning botanical institution of Cuba. It was established originally as a joint endeavor between sugar magnate Edwin F. Atkins and Harvard University in 1901. Between 1925 and 1934, the research yacht Utowana performed ample plant germplasm collections for the USDA in the New and Old World as well as archeological and zoological surveys in the Neotropics. The botanical expeditions were conducted mostly, under the leadership of David Fairchild. In this contribution we review to what extent Utowana expeditions and collections were instrumental in building the living collections of Cienfuegos Botanical Garden. A total of 278 accessions (comprising 254 species) were introduced into this garden directly or indirectly through these expeditions. Currently 57 of these species (132 individuals) are still part of its living collections. Interestingly, five of the Caribbean expeditions of this research yacht carried plant material between the Cienfuegos Botanical Garden and two other botanic gardens that were operated by US entities, namely the Lancetilla Botanical Garden in Honduras (owned by the United Fruit Company) and the Summit Gardens in Panama City (managed by the Panama Canal governmental agency). Our study also shows that plant material collected during Utowana expeditions was sent from Old World and Caribbean Island botanic gardens to Cienfuegos Botanical Garden. Thomas Barbour, director of this botanical institution between 1927 and 1946 joined four of these plant hunting endeavors. He provided strong support for the growing of the Cienfuegos Botanical Garden living collections with plant material collected during Utowana expeditions.

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Mikatadze-Panstulaia, Tsira, Sandro Kolbaia, and Ana Gogoladze. "Safeguarding Wild Plant Genetic Resources of Georgia within the Millennium Seed Bank Partnership." European Journal of Sustainable Development 8, no. 4 (October 1, 2019): 37. http://dx.doi.org/10.14207/ejsd.2019.v8n4p37.

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Working group of the Department of Plant Conservation of the National Botanical Garden of Georgia (NBGG) have been participating in the global Millennium Seed Bank Partnership, led by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew since 2005. During the 2005-2018 period, within the scope of MSB-1 and MSB-2, seeds and herbarium samples of more than 1750 plant species and interspecific taxa, belonging to 107 families and 483 genera (more than 41% of Georgia’s flora) – 348 endemics of Caucasus and 151 endemics of Georgia, have been secured in the National Seed Bank of Georgia (NSB). Seed Bank data are managed in BRAHMS (Department of Plant Sciences of Oxford University). The collection of wild plant species is accompanied by the comprehensive database of geographical, botanical and habitat information. Later phase involves laboratory treatment and germination/viability testing (at least 500 seeds per species) and the long-term deposition and storage (under -20◦C temperature) at the National Seed Bank of Georgia. The duplicates of seed collection and herbarium vouchers are stored at the Millennium Seed Bank of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK. Germination capacity and viability of collections in NSB is determined before cold storage of seeds, while at the MSB already banked seeds are tested.Keywords: Seed bank; Ex-situ conservation; Plant diversity; Botanical garden; Genetic resources

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LUCAS, A. M. "Disposing of John Lindley's library and herbarium: the offer to Australia." Archives of Natural History 35, no. 1 (April 2008): 15–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/e0260954108000053.

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Shortly before he died, John Lindley decided to dispose of his herbarium and botanical library. He sold his orchid herbarium to the United Kingdom government for deposit at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and then offered his library and the remainder of his herbarium to Ferdinand Mueller in Melbourne. On his behalf, Joseph Hooker had earlier unsuccessfully offered the library and remnant herbarium to the University of Sydney, using the good offices of Sir Charles Nicholson. Although neither the University of Sydney nor Mueller was able to raise the necessary funds to purchase either collection, the correspondence allows a reconstruction of a catalogue of Lindley's library, and poses some questions about Joseph Hooker's motives in attempting to dispose of Lindley's material outside the United Kingdom. The final disposal of the herbarium to Cambridge and previous analyses of the purchase of his Library for the Royal Horticultural Society are discussed. A list of the works from Lindley's library offered for sale to Australia is appended.

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Conklin, Janine R., and Patricia R. Drackett. "A Survey Method to Gauge Public Interest in Programs, Activities, and Events at Arboreta and Botanic Gardens." Journal of Environmental Horticulture 29, no. 1 (March 1, 2011): 1–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.24266/0738-2898-29.1.1.

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Abstract To provide arboreta and botanic gardens with a guide to determine public interests in programs at their institution, a case study was completed of the Crosby Arboretum, Mississippi State University. ‘Community’ was defined as participants that resided within 105 km (65 mi) of the arboretum (97% of community respondents) and attended the Picayune Street Fair. ‘Visitors’ were defined as respondents that attended the Piney Woods Heritage Festival at the arboretum. At each event, an intercept survey was conducted in Picayune, MS, during November 2009 where self-selected respondents (n = 271 for community and n = 56 for visitors) answered six demographic and 11 program, activity, and event questions. Both groups were similar in all demographic variables except age (9 year average age difference) and the number of homes without children (60 and 76%). Each group was most interested in continuing education classes, craft exercises, music performances, fitness walks, and workshops. The community and visitors were the least interested in book clubs, dance instruction, preschool activities, and scout programs. This study can be adapted by any botanic garden or arboretum and may be useful in planning current and future programs which target visitor or community interests for repeated visits to the site.

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Huang, Terry. "The British Garden." Sibbaldia: the International Journal of Botanic Garden Horticulture, no. 13 (November 10, 2015): 153–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.24823/sibbaldia.2015.81.

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The Royal Horticultural Society/Garden Club of America Interchange Fellowship was established in 1952 and is awarded to one American and one British student annually. It was formerly known as the Martin McLaren Scholarship and was created to help encourage the exchange of ideas and information in the horticultural world. Terry Huang was selected as the American 2013–2014 Royal Interchange Fellow. His travels and placements solidified for him the important role that botanic and public gardens play as interpreters of the plant world. He describes some of his experiences and examples of excellence that he saw while in Britain. He goes on to explain that the work placements have influenced and inspired the work he does today in the Botany Greenhouse at the University of Washington.

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Giuliani, Claudia, Martina Bottoni, Fabrizia Milani, Sefora Todero, Patrizia Berera, Filippo Maggi, Laura Santagostini, and Gelsomina Fico. "Botanic Garden as a Factory of Molecules: Myrtus communis L. subsp. communis as a Case Study." Plants 11, no. 6 (March 11, 2022): 754. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants11060754.

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A novel perception of botanic gardens as complex “factories of molecules” (Lombardy Region Project–Lr. 25/2016, year 2021), that mediate plant–environment interactions, and are the basis of their utility for humans, is presented. The core-topic is the medicinal plant heritage of the Ghirardi Botanic Garden (Toscolano Maderno, Brescia, Italy) of the University of Milan. In this work, we studied Myrtus communis L. subsp. communis (Myrtaceae) at multiple scale levels: macro- and micromorphological, with special emphasis on the secretory structures responsible for the production of secondary metabolites; phytochemical, with the analysis of the essential oil (EO) composition from leaves (fresh, dried, stored at −20 °C and at −80 °C) and fruits over two consecutive years (2018 and 2019); bio-ecological, with a focus, based on literature data, on the ecology and biological activity of the main EO components. The occurrence of secretory cavities producing terpenes, along with flavonoids, was proven. A high level of chemical variability across the obtained EO profiles emerged, especially that concerning quantitative data. However, regardless of the different conservation procedures, the examined plant part, or the phenological stage, we detected the presence of three ubiquitous compounds: α-pinene, 1,8-cineole, and linalool. The overall results will serve to enrich the Ghirardi Botanic Garden with novel labeling showing accurate and updated scientific information in an Open science perspective.

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Zemanek, Alicja, and Piotr Köhler. "Historia Ogrodu Botanicznego Uniwersytetu Stefana Batorego w Wilnie (1919–1939)." Studia Historiae Scientiarum 15 (November 24, 2016): 301–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.4467/23921749shs.16.012.6155.

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The university in Vilna (Lithuanian: Vilnius), now Vilniaus universitetas, founded in 1579 by Stefan Batory (Stephen Báthory), King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, was a centre of Polish botany in 1780-1832 and 1919-1939. The Botanic Garden established by Jean-Emmanuel Gilibert (1741–1814) in 1781 (or, actually, from 1782) survived the loss of independence by Poland (1795), and a later closure of the University (1832), and it continued to function until 1842, when it was shut down by Russian authorities. After Poland had regained independence and the University was reopened as the Stefan Batory University (SBU), its Botanic Garden was established on a new location (1919, active since 1920). It survived as a Polish institution until 1939. After the Second World War, as a result of changed borders, it found itself in the Soviet Union, and from 1990 – in the Republic of Lithuania. A multidisciplinary research project has been recently launched with the aim to create a publication on the history of science at the Stefan Batory University. The botanical part of the project includes, among others, drafting the history of the Botanic Garden. Obtaining electronic copies of archival documents, e.g. annual reports written by the directors, enabled a more thorough analysis of the Garden’s history. Piotr Wiśniewski (1884–1971), a plant physiologist, nominated as Professor in the Department of General Botany on 1 June 1920, was the organiser and the first director of the Garden. He resigned from his post in October 1923, due to financial problems of the Garden. From October 1923 to April 1924, the management was run by the acting director, Edward Bekier (1883–1945), Professor in the Department of Physical Chemistry, Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences. For 13 subsequent years, i.e. from 1 May 1924 to 30 April 1937, the directorship of the Garden was held by Józef Trzebiński (1867–1941), a mycologist and one of the pioneers of phytopathology in Poland, Head of the Department of Botany II (Agricultural Botany), renamed in 1926 as the Department of Plant Taxonomy, and in 1937 – the Department of Taxonomy and Geography of Plants. From May 1937 to 1939, his successor as director was Franciszek Ksawery Skupieński (1888–1962), a researcher of slime moulds. Great credit for the development of the Garden is due to the Inspector, i.e. Chief Gardener, Konstanty Prószyński (Proszyński) (1859–1936) working there from 1919, through his official nomination in 1920, until his death. He was an amateur-naturalist, a former landowner, who had lost his property. Apart from the work on establishing and maintaining the Garden’s collection, as well as readying seeds for exchange, he published one mycological paper, and prepared a manuscript on fungi, illustrated by himself, containing descriptions of the new species. Unfortunately, this work was not published for lack of funds, and the prepared material was scattered. Some other illustrations of flowering plants drawn by Prószyński survived. There were some obstacles to the further development of the institution, namely substantially inadequate funds as well as too few members of the personnel (1–3 gardeners, and 1–3 seasonal workers). The area of the Garden, covering approx. 2 hectares was situated on the left bank of the Neris river (Polish: Wilia). It was located on sandy soils of a floodplain, and thus liable to flooding. These were the reasons for the decision taken in June 1939 to move the Garden to a new site but the outbreak of the Second World War stood in the way. Despite these disadvantageous conditions, the management succeeded in setting up sections of plants analogous to these established in other botanical gardens in Poland and throughout the world, i.e. general taxonomy (1922), native flora (1922), psammophilous plants (1922), cultivated plants (1924/1925), plant ecology (1927/1928), alpinarium (1927–1929), high-bog plants (1927–1929), and, additionally – in the 1920s – the arboretum, as well as sections of aquatic and bog plants. A glasshouse was erected in 1926–1929 to provide room for plants of warm and tropical zones. The groups representing the various types of vegetation illustrated the progress in ecology and phytosociology in the science of the period (e.g. in the ecology section, the Raunkiaer’s life forms were presented). The number of species grown increased over time, from 1,347 in 1923/1924 to approx. 2,800 in 1936/1937. Difficult weather conditions – the severe winter of 1928 as well as the snowless winter and the dry summer of 1933/34 contributed to the reduction of the collections. The ground collections, destroyed by flood in spring of 1931, were restored in subsequent years. Initially, the source of plant material was the wild plant species collected during field trips. Many specimens were also obtained from other botanical gardens, such as Warsaw and Cracow (Kraków). Beginning from 1923, printed catalogues of seeds offered for exchange were published (cf. the list on p. ... ). Owing to that, the Garden began to participate in the national and international plant exchange networks. From its inception, the collection of the Garden was used for teaching purposes, primarily to the students of the University, as well as for the botanical education of schoolchildren and the general public, particularly of the residents of Vilna. Scientific experiments on phytopathology were conducted on the Garden’s plots. After Vilna was incorporated into Lithuania in October 1939, the Lithuanian authorities shut down the Stefan Batory University, thus ending the history of the Polish Botanic Garden. Its area is now one of the sections of the Vilnius University Botanic Garden (“Vingis” section – Vilniaus universiteto botanikos sodas). In 1964, its area was extended to 7.35 hectares. In 1974, after establishing the new Botanic Garden in Kairenai to the east of Vilnius, the old Garden lost its significance. Nevertheless, it still serves the students and townspeople of Vilnius, and its collections of flowering plants are often used to decorate and grace the university halls during celebrations.

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Collinson, Emeritus James W. "The Vegetation of Antarctica Through Geological Time. By David J. Cantrill (Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne, Australia) and Imogen Poole (Utrecht University)." Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research 45, no. 4 (November 2013): 616–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1657/1938-4246-45.4.616b.

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Ahmad Fitri, Z., N. H. Nik Hazlan, S. N. Sarmin, M. Kusin, Engku Azlin Rahayu Engku Ariff, T. T. M. Z. Hashim, S. A. K. Yamani, et al. "Burseraceae in Kuala Keniam and Surrounding Area at Taman Negara Pahang, Peninsular Malaysia." IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 1019, no. 1 (April 1, 2022): 012027. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/1019/1/012027.

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Abstract A preliminary survey on Burseraceae diversity was conducted in Kuala Keniam and surrounding area at Taman Negara Pahang, Peninsular Malaysia. The data from recent scientific expedition in early September 2020 were compiled with the previous collections lodged in the Herbarium of Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKMB), Herbarium of Forest Research Institute Malaysia (KEP), Herbarium of University of Malaya (KLU) and Herbarium of Singapore Botanic Gardens (SING). A total of 19 taxa of Burseraceae from five genera were listed in this area. Santiria and Dacryodes represented the highest species with six (6) taxa each followed by Canarium with five (5) species. The common species that we have counted around Kuala Keniam are Canarium littorale and Dacryodes rostrata. From the flora survey, we counted Canarium littorale, C. pilosum, D. costata, D. rostrata, D. rugosa, Santiria griffithii, S. laevigata and Triomma malaccensis. Meanwhile, in the plot study, we counted Canarium littorale, C. pilosum, Dacryodes rostrata, D. rugosa, Santiria laevigata, S. tomentosa and Scutinanthe brunnea.

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Fulton, Graham R. "Museum: The Macleays, Their Collections and the Search for Order." Pacific Conservation Biology 17, no. 2 (2011): 162. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/pc110162.

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STACEY and Hay have previously collaborated on the volume Herbarium (Stacey and Hay 2004) regarding collections held in the herbarium of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney. Ashley Hay has published two books of narrative non-fiction. Her essays, short stories and journalism have appeared in various periodicals including The Bulletin where she was a literary editor. Robyn Stacey is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Communication and Arts at the University of Western Sydney. She is an acclaimed photographer, in Australia, with her photography shown in Australia and internationally. This book is about the history, collectors and collections of The Macleay Museum at The University of Sydney. Its aim is to bring the reader closer to the collectors and collections by breathing life into the characters and selected specimens in the collection; according to the dust-jacket’s hyperbole, to throw open the doors of the museum and its rich collections. The authors develop the book with their individual skills, one of writing and one of photography. The second is facilitated through its aesthetic appeal, its folio size and large photographic reproductions of strikingly coloured specimens. The whole is a coffee-table-style-book with a text that digs deeper developing the background to the personalities and collections, intertwining them with the history of early systematists/collectors, which provides the backbone of the text.

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Cornish, Caroline, Patricia Allan, Lauren Gardiner, Poppy Nicol, Heather Pardoe, Craig Sherwood, Rachel Webster, Donna Young, and Mark Nesbitt. "Between Metropole and Province: circulating botany in British museums, 1870–1940." Archives of Natural History 47, no. 1 (April 2020): 124–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/anh.2020.0627.

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Exchange of duplicate specimens was an important element of the relationship between metropolitan and regional museums in the period 1870–1940. Evidence of transfers of botanical museum objects such as economic botany specimens is explored for the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and six museums outside the capital: Cambridge University Botanical Museum, National Museum Wales, Glasgow Museums, Liverpool World Museum, Manchester Museum and Warrington Museum. Botany became an important element in these museums soon after their foundation, sometimes relying heavily on Kew material as in the case of Glasgow and Warrington, and usually with a strong element of economic botany (except in the case of Cambridge). Patterns of exchange depended on personal connections and rarely took the form of symmetrical relationships. Botanical displays declined in importance at various points between the 1920s and 1960s, and today only Warrington Museum has a botanical gallery open to the public. However, botanical objects are finding new roles in displays on subjects such as local history, history of collections, natural history and migration.

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Christian, Henry, Indra Gamayanto, Sasono Wibowo, and Yani Parti Astuti. "The Impact & Innovation of E=K.MC2 in Singapore Botanic Garden (SBG): The Business Strategy to Gain Competitive Advantage." Journal of Economics and Management Sciences 1, no. 1 (June 12, 2018): p166. http://dx.doi.org/10.30560/jems.v1n1p166.

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The environment is one factor that must be maintained and developed its existence because a healthy environment provides enormous benefits to human life. Singapore Botanic Garden is one of the most beautiful gardens in the world and presents an incredible atmosphere. In this journal, we will develop and provide innovative ideas to the SBG as an idea in developing SBG to a wider direction, not only in SBG but can spread all over the world. Environmental problems that are commonly occurring today, can be overcome by such innovations and by using several methods such as The 7S’s of Galliers & Sutherland and Competing with the giants of the Harvard business review, we will know to what extent SBG has grown and then E = K.MC2 which is an innovative formula which later developed into SBG University (The Idea & Innovation For the future) which is an innovative idea in expanding what has been done by SBG, innovation is needed, not only to retain existing ones, but to be able to give positive contribution which in giving the true meaning of the vision and mission of the company and / or organization that has been established. Innovation should not stop at one point, but it should be able to spread to other points that can make human life much better.

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Bavcon, Jože, Katja Malovrh, Maja Tomšič, and Blanka Ravnjak. "In Situ Conservation of Dry Meadows." Land 13, no. 3 (March 1, 2024): 315. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land13030315.

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Grassland ecosystems are increasingly vulnerable as they are threatened by both intensive agriculture and abandonment of land use, which leads to overgrowth with scrub vegetation and forest. Given that meadows are habitat types of very high biodiversity, their loss significantly reduces local biodiversity. That is why the University Botanic Gardens Ljubljana has been renting a 2 ha dry meadow at the edge of Ljubljana capital city since 2001, for the purpose of in situ conservation in the urban area. We have been observing the meadow since 1997. In 2023, in addition to the complete inventory of species, we also carried out an inventory and analysis of the community in the meadow using the Braun–Blanquet method in 25 relevés. We recorded 163 plant species in the meadow during the entire growing season, and a total of 82 were recorded in the relevés. Eighteen of the species recorded are on the red list of protected plant species in Slovenia. In the relevés, 15 species types were constant (occurring in 60%) and as many as 21 were unique. The species Peucedanum oreoselinum (L.) Moench was recorded in all relevés (25), followed by the species Bromopsis erecta (Huds.) Fourr. (24), Galium verum L. (24), Briza media L. (23), Brachypodium pinnatum (L.) PB. (22) and Salvia pratensis L. (21).

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Harrison, Mark. "Ray Desmond, The European Discovery of the Indian Flora. Oxford: Oxford University Press/Royal Botanic Gardens, 1992. Pp. viii + 355. ISBN 0-19-854684-X. £60.00." British Journal for the History of Science 26, no. 2 (June 1993): 237–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0007087400030818.

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Merrillees, R. S. "Greece and the Australian Classical connection." Annual of the British School at Athens 94 (November 1999): 457–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s006824540000068x.

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The study of ancient Greek and Latin in Australia and New Zealand, especially at Sydney Church of England Grammar School in New South Wales, produced this century a number of leading scholars who made a major contribution to the study of Old World archaeology in Europe and Australia this century. Among them were V. G. Childe, T. J. Dunbabin, J. R. Stewart and A. D. Trendall. In developing their respective fields of expertise, all spent some time in Greece, as students, excavators, research workers and soldiers, and had formative links with the British School at Athens. Australia's debt to the Classics is reflected not only in the life-long attachment to their legacy, and to Greece, by the former Prime Minister, the Hon. E. G. Whitlam, but in the perpetuation of their influence in such Colonial and modern structures as the monument of Lysicrates in Sydney's Botanic Gardens and the National Library and new Parliament House in Canberra, and in an official poster illustrating multiculturalism in Australia. Despite their role in shaping Australia's European history, the teaching of Classics is under threat as never before, and the late Enoch Powell, at one time Professor of Ancient Greek at the University of Sydney, has stigmatised the obscurantism which threatens to impoverish if not undermine Western civilisation by closing access to knowledge of our Classical past.

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Afton, William D., Kathryn K. Fontenot, Jeff S. Kuehny, and Carl E. Motsenbocker. "Evaluation of Yield, Marketability, and Nitrate Levels of Lettuce Cultivars Produced in Southern Louisiana." HortTechnology 30, no. 5 (October 2020): 632–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.21273/horttech04642-20.

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Forty-five cultivars of lettuce (Lactuca sativa) were field-grown using best management practices at the Louisiana State University Agricultural Center (LSU AgCenter) Botanic Gardens in Baton Rouge during the Fall 2011 and Fall 2012 seasons. Recommended cultivars were selected for commercial production in Louisiana based on fresh weight and lettuce size (width and height). Nitrate (NO3–) concentration was analyzed for each cultivar, as lettuces are known to accumulate and concentrate NO3–, and were then compared with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) oral reference dose (RfD—the EPA’s maximum acceptable oral dose of a toxic substance) of 1.6 mg NO3-nitrogen (N) per kilogram body weight per day. Recommended butterhead cultivars were Caliente and Harmony (21.6 and 13.9 ppm NO3–, respectively); recommended green-leaf cultivars were Salad Bowl and Tango (10.6 and 4.6 ppm NO3–, respectively); recommended red-leaf cultivars were Red Salad Bowl, Red Sails, and New Red Fire (15.2, 15.4, and 24.0 ppm NO3–, respectively). The only recommended romaine cultivar was Green Towers (11.2 ppm NO3–), and recommended crisphead cultivars included Raider and Ithaca (17.6 and 14.9 ppm NO3–, respectively). Of the highest yielding cultivars, New Red Fire accumulated the greatest NO3– concentration: 24.0 ppm in both years 1 and 2. The NO3– concentration is less than the levels of concern for both men and women 20 to 74 years old, 3.9% of the RfD for men and 4.59% of the RfD for women.

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Lindsey, Kiera. "'Remember Aesi':." Public History Review 28 (June 22, 2021): 46–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.5130/phrj.v28i0.7760.

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In this article I draw upon a definition of ‘dialogical memorial’ offered by Brad West to offer an experimental artist's brief that outlines the various ways that a contemporary monument to the colonial artist, Adelaide Eliza Scott Ironside (1831-1867), could ‘talk back’ to the nineteenth-century statues of her contemporaries, and ‘converse’ with more recent acts of history making. In contrast to the familiar figure of the individual hero, which we associate with the statuary of her age, I suggest a group monument that acknowledges the intimate intergenerational female network which shaped Aesi's life and also ‘re-presents’ – a term coined by the historian Greg Dening – several native born and convict women from the Georgian, Regency and Victorian eras who influenced her life. Instead of elevating Aesi upon a plinth, I recommend grounding this group monument on Gadigal country and planting around it many of the Australian Wildflowers she painted in ways that draw attention to the millennia-old Indigenous uses of the same plants. And finally, by situating Aesi’s monument in the Outer Domain (behind the New South Wales Art Gallery in Sydney’s Botanic Gardens and to the east of the Yurong Pennisula, near Woolloomooloo Bay), in an area where she once boldly assumed centre stage before a large male audience in a flamboyant moment of her own theatrical history-making, I argue that this memorial will have the capcity to speak for itself in ways that challenge the underepresentation of colonial women in Sydney's statuary, abd, as West suggests, do much to ‘alter the stage on which Sydney's colonial history 'is narrated and performed’. [i] Greg Dening, Performances, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1992, p37.

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Cohn, Helen M. "Bibliography of the History of Australian Science, No. 29, 2008." Historical Records of Australian Science 20, no. 1 (2009): 147. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/hr09008.

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This bibliography, in geographic terms, covers principally Australia, but also New Zealand, New Guinea and other islands of the Pacific Ocean near Australia, and Antarctica. It includes material on the history of the natural sciences (mathematics, physical sciences, earth sciences and biological sciences), some of the applied sciences (including medical and health sciences, agriculture, manufacturing and engineering), and human sciences (psychology, anthropology and sociology). Biographical material on practitioners in these sciences is also of interest. The sources used in compiling this bibliography include those that have proved useful in the past in finding relevant citations. The library catalogues of the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne, the National Library of Australia and the National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Matauranga O Aotearoa were particularly useful sources of information. Journals that have yielded articles for previous bibliographies were checked, as were some titles that have not previously been scanned. Hence a number of citations are included that were published earlier than 2008. Assistance has been received from a number of people who sent items or information about items published in 2008 for inclusion in the bibliography. In particular, Professor Rod Home has been most helpful in forwarding relevant citations. Staff of the eScholarship Research Centre at the University of Melbourne, especially Helen Morgan, were of great assistance in the preparation of this bibliography. Readers may have access to information about relevant books, journal articles, conference papers, reports, Master's and PhD theses and reviews published in 2009. They are encouraged to send such information to the compiler at the above email address for inclusion in future bibliographies.

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Millar, Alan J. K., and D. Wilson Freshwater. "Morphology and molecular phylogeny of the marine algal order Gelidiales (Rhodophyta) from New South Wales, including Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands." Australian Systematic Botany 18, no. 3 (2005): 215. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/sb04041.

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Fifteen species in seven genera of the marine benthic red algal order Gelidiales are reported from the New South Wales coast including Lord Howe Island and Norfolk Island. Critical sampling, a re-examination of herbarium specimens filed in the Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney and the University of Melbourne, and molecular sequencing of most of the species has determined that many of the previous identifications from this region of the Pacific were incorrect. Gelidium pusillum (Stackhouse) Le Jolis, once widely reported from this coast, is shown not to occur here and the specimens on which these misidentifications were made have proved to represent either new species or previously described species. Similarly, records of Gelidium australe J. Agardh have been found to represent misidentification of the formerly New Zealand endemic Gelidium allanii V.J.Chapman, and specimens identified as Gelidium caulacantheum J. Agardh actually represent the new species Gelidium hommersandii sp. nov. Previously recorded species verified in this study are Capreolia implexa Guiry & Womersley, Gelidiella acerosa (Forsskål) Feldmann & G.Hamel, Gelidium maidenii Lucas, Pterocladia lucida (Turner) J. Agardh, Pterocladiella caerulescens (Kützing) Santelices & Hommersand [as Pterocladia caerulescens (Kützing) Santelices], Pterocladiella capillacea (Gmelin) Santelices & Hommersand [as Pterocladia capillacea (Gmelin) Bornet], and Ptilophora pectinata (A. & E.S. Gepp) R.E.Norris. These species are described and illustrated in detail along with previously unreported reproductive structures. Three species are newly recorded for the New South Wales mainland [Parviphycus antipae Celan, Gelidium crinale (Turner) Gaillon, and Pterocladiella caloglossoides (Howe) Santelices], and two species (Gelidium isabelae W.R.Taylor and Gelidium allanii V.J.Chapman) represent new records for the Australian continent. In addition, three new species are described: Gelidium bernabei sp. nov., Gelidium declerckii sp. nov., and Gelidium hommersandii sp. nov.

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Gilmour, Ron. "The International Plant Names Index200054The International Plant Names Index. (The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, The Harvard University Herbaria, and the Australian National Herbarium): The Plant Names Project 1999. http://www.ipni.org No charge." Electronic Resources Review 4, no. 6 (May 2000): 60–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/err.2000.4.6.60.54.

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WIJNANDS, D. O. "DESMOND, R. The European discovery of the Indian flora. Royal Botanic Gardens & Oxford University Press, Kew and Oxford: 1992. Pp xii, 355 [+ 32 pp plates]; illustrated. Price: £ 60.00. ISBN: 0-19-854684-X." Archives of Natural History 20, no. 3 (October 1993): 441. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/anh.1993.20.3.441.

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Smith, Nathan E. C. "Narrative histories in mycology and the legacy of George Edward Massee (1845–1917)." Archives of Natural History 47, no. 2 (October 2020): 361–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/anh.2020.0661.

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Mycology is a relatively small and young discipline that has yet to achieve the institutional presence of similar disciplines such as botany and zoology. Because of this, mycological histories are often written by practitioners aiming to establish a narrative of professionalization that confirms mycology as a scientific discipline instead of a natural history pursuit. George Edward Massee (1845–1917) was one of the foremost mycologists of the late nineteenth century, achieving the top position in the field as Principal Assistant (Cryptogams) at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and publishing over 250 books and articles. Providing a link between the great Victorian mycologists Mordecai Cubitt Cooke (1825–1914) and the Revd Miles Joseph Berkeley (1803–1889) and the more modern school that included the likes of Elsie Maud Wakefield (1886–1972), he achieved this position without a university education. However, since his death, his achievements have been subject to multiple negative assessments and, as a result, he has become increasingly obscured in the history of British mycology. The majority of these unfavourable appraisals originated from the publications of Dr John Ramsbottom (1885–1974), a mycologist and historian who was a key member of the British Mycological Society and a founding member of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History. These articles were published across the first half of the twentieth century, and Ramsbottom's works have since become standard texts in both the biography of Massee and the history of British mycology. Here I question the validity of the substance of Ramsbottom's claims against Massee, given the circumstances under which Ramsbottom's articles were written and the relationship between Massee and the fledgling British Mycological Society, initially run by Carleton Rea (1861–1946) and of which Ramsbottom was a senior member. I examine wider reasons for such strong criticism of Massee and explore the professional differences and relationships between Massee and Ramsbottom, placing the analysis firmly in the context of changing scientific practice occurring in the early twentieth century.

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Watson, M. F. "The Genera of the Umbelliferae: A nomenclator. M. G. Pimenov and M. V. Leonov. London: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and Botanical Garden of Moscow University, Russia. 1993. 156 pp. ISBN 0 947643 58 3. £12.00 (paperback)." Edinburgh Journal of Botany 52, no. 1 (March 1995): 92–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0960428600001955.

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Sun, Shucun. "Fathers of Botany: The Discovery of Chinese Plants by European Missionaries. By Jane Kilpatrick. Surrey (United Kingdom): Kew Publishing (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew); Chicago (Illinois): University of Chicago Press. $60.00. x + 254 p.; ill.; index. ISBN: 978-0-226-20670-7. 2014." Quarterly Review of Biology 92, no. 2 (June 2017): 204. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/692225.

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Gröger, Andreas. "Alpines: From Mountain to Garden. By Richard Wilford; Foreword by Martyn Rix. Kew (United Kingdom): Royal Botanic Gardens; distributed by University of Chicago Press, Chicago (Illinois). $48.00. xii + 244 p.; ill.; index to scientific names and cultivars and index to common names. ISBN: 978‐1‐84246‐172‐3. 2010." Quarterly Review of Biology 86, no. 4 (December 2011): 340–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/662494.

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DICKSON, J. H. "J. K. BOWDEN. John Lightfoot. His work and travels with a biographical introduction and a catalogue of the Lightfoot herbarium. The Bentham-Moxon Trust, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh: ‘1989’ [1990]. Pp [6], 255; illustrated. Price: none stated. ISBN 0-913196-51-7." Archives of Natural History 18, no. 2 (June 1991): 277–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/anh.1991.18.2.277b.

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Cantley, Jason, and Bob Patterson. "Plants of the World. An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Vascular PlantsPlants of the World. An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Vascular Plants, By M. J. M. Christenhusz, M. F. Fay, and M. W. Chase. 2017. Kew Publishing, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom and The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL. 816 pp. ISBN 978-1-84246-6346 (hardcover). Price $95.00, hardcover illustrated edition; $76, Kindle edition." Madroño 65, no. 2 (April 2018): 101–2. http://dx.doi.org/10.3120/0024-9637-65.2.101.

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Eminağaoğlu, Zehra, and Özgür Eminağaoğlu. "Planning and design principles of Artvin Çoruh University Ali Nihat Gökyiğit Botanical Garden in a sustainable approach." Biological Diversity and Conservation, April 20, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.46309/biodicon.2024.1454490.

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Botanic gardens are institutions holding documented collections of living plants for the purpose of scientific research, conservation, display, and education. Gardens and the cultivation of plants have been around for thousands of years with the first examples dating to around 3,000 years ago in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia. In the last 50 years botanic gardens are increasingly recognised as being extremely important to conservation due to their existing collections and the scientific knowledge they possess in the propagation of plant species. There are 3765 botanical institutions, 1775 botanic gardens and arboreta in 148 countries around the world with many more under construction or being planned. 628 of them are being members of the Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI) platform. The Artvin Çoruh University Ali Nihat Gökyiğit Botanical Garden (ANGBB) was established in 2018 and opened to the public in 2022. ANGBB is one of the 13 botanical gardens from Turkey that are members of this platform. There are around 30,000 plants belonging to approximately 2000 different species, including 400 rare, 200 medicinal-aromatic, and about 1400 decorative species, cultivated in the garden. A total of 594 seeds belonging to specialized species such as Medicinal Aromatic and endemic plants are preserved in the seed house of the botanical garden. Within the scope of this research, the purpose, functions, planning, and design of botanic gardens have been evaluated according to the economic, ecological, and social components of sustainability, and sustainable planning and design criteria have been established for the ANGBB. These criteria address structural landscape design, plant landscape design, administrative planning, spatial planning, educational, social, and cultural planning, as well as management and maintenance. The ANGBB has been evaluated in terms of sustainable planning and design criteria, and recommendations for enhancing the sustainability of the ANGBB have been provided based on the data obtained.

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Negulici, Eduard Marius. "NEWLY INTRODUCED ROSE CULTIVARS IN ROSARIUM OF THE BOTANIC GARDEN "D. BRANDZA", UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST." ANNALS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CRAIOVA, Biology, Horticulture, Food products processing technology, Environmental engineering 27, no. 63 (December 16, 2022). http://dx.doi.org/10.52846/bihpt.v27i63.43.

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This paper presents the newly introduced rose cultivars in the Rosarium from the Botanic Garden “Dimitrie Brandza” of the University of Bucharest. One of the objectives in Botanic Gardens is to bring new species or cultivars to expand the collections. In that matter the roses represent one of the biggest collections from our institution so is very important to help it grow and also one of the main attractions when is the blooming season.

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