This was one of several popular American gardens, including Longwood Gardens (1798), Arnold Arboretum (1872), New York Botanical Garden (1891), Huntington Botanical Gardens (1906), Brooklyn Botanic Garden (1910), International Peace Garden (1932), and Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden (1938).
In the early 1800s Jean Gesner, a Swiss physician and botanist, noted that by the end of the 18th century there were 1,600 botanical gardens in Europe.
We may remember the shoe hat by "Schiap," but her 1939 botanical headgear, made as if from juicy purple grapes nestling in green leaves, was just as surreal.
Plants that were once of medicinal value and extremely important in early botanical gardens are now chiefly of historical interest and are not particularly represented in contemporary collections.
He described his findings in the form of a letter to a colleague, De sexu plantarum (1694; "On the sex of plants"), and in Opuscula botanica (1697; "Botanical Works").
Rooms full of 1920s botanical forms, spiralling whorls of undergrowth and foliage, give way to New York nocturnes – all swoony moonlight and wrought-iron lampposts – that make you long for the Manhattan of contemporaries such as Charles Sheeler and Joseph Stella.
Last week we convened in New Orleans for Botany 2013, with 1100 botanical researchers, teachers and students flooding the Hilton Riverside with wondrous tales from the Kingdom Plantae.
With the intercession of a World War I it was not until the 9th Horticultural Congress in London in 1930 that the rules of a Horticulture Nomenclature Committee were agreed and added as an appendix to the 1935 Botanical Code.
French naturalist Jean Ruel made what is considered the first explicit mention of head cabbage in his 1536 botanical treatise De Natura Stirpium, referring to it as capucos coles ("head-coles"), Sir Anthony Ashley, 1st Baronet, did not disdain to have a cabbage at the foot of his monument in Wimborne St Giles.
As reviewed by Wilmotte (1994), botanical, bacteriological, and molecular approaches have contributed to respond to these questions.
