A garden often with
greenhouses for the culture, study, conservation and exhibition of
special plants.
Botanical gardens
(in Latin hortus botanicus) grow a wide variety of plants both
for scientific purposes and for the enjoyment and education of
visitors, originally, they were collections of living plants
designed to illustrate relationships within plant groups.
The idea of making an institution dedicated to the collection of
plants is found both in ancient Chinese, Egyptian and
Mesopotamian gardens. In classical Greece and Rome, such plants
were used for medicinal purposes. This practice was continued in
the monasteries of medieval Europe and flourished a new with the
scientific concerns of the renaissance. The world now has a
large number of botanic gardens that exhibit ornamental plants
in a scheme that emphasizes natural relationships. Botanical
gardens are also reservoirs of valuable
heritable
characteristics, potentially important in the
breeding of new
cultivars
of plants. Botanists
maintain the garden's library and
herbarium
of dried and documented plant material. Botanical gardens may
also serve to entertain and educate the public and another
function is the training of gardeners. However, not all
botanical gardens are open to the public
A display garden of mostly woody plants (shrubs and trees) is
often called an arboretum
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