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| | Botanical Dietary Supplements: Background Information |
 | | A botanical is a plant or plant part valued for its medicinal or therapeutic properties, flavor, and/or scent. | | | Chamomile and peppermint, both mild botanicals, are usually taken as teas to aid digestion and are generally considered safe for self-administration. | | | They are made in different strengths that are expressed as botanical-to-extract ratios (i.e., ratios of the weight of the dried botanical to the volume or weight of the finished product). |
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http://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/BotanicalBackground.asp
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| | Botanical Illustration Bibliography |
| | A botanical revision of the Genus Crocus with notes on cultivation and lavishly illustrated with reproductions of paintings from a selection of sources. | | | Included are the how-to’s of selecting, working with and caring for flowers, exercises to help the reader look at flowers from a botanical artist’s point of view, working with color and color interactions, composition, and the role of flowers in landscapes and gardens. | | | The Clutius Botanical Watercolors: Plants and Flowers of the Renaissance. |
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http://www.library.wwu.edu/ref/subjguides/botill.htm
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| | Botanical Pest Control |
| | Nearly all the other botanical controls (derived from plants) are, to some extent, toxic. | | | Safer soaps are the most commonly available insecticidal soaps and control soft-bodied insects (aphids, thrips, scales, whitefly, leafhopper nymphs and mites) which come in contact with the wet spray. | | | The alkaloids in Sabadilla affect the nerve cells of insects, causing paralysis and eventual, sometimes immediate, death. |
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http://www.iserv.net/~wmize/botan.htm
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| | Botanical Gardens |
| | In Chiangmai, in the north of Thailand, Queen Sirikit Botanical Garden is found. | | | The average altitude is 120 m and a special characteristic is its bamboo, palms, and medicinal plants collection, together with the literary garden. | | | The garden's area is 544 ha (3,400 rai), with 120 ha of natural vegetation of dry evergreen and scrub forest with emerging Yang na trees (Dipterocarpus alatus). |
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http://www.forest.go.th/Botany/Gardens/Botanics&arboreta.htm
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| | Hawaii's Botanical & Public Gardens - O'ahu |
| | Koko Crater Botanical Garden covers a hot, dry 60 acre site inside of the Crater and the collections highlight drought-tolerant plants that are adaptable to this environment and to water conservation techniques (xeriscape). | | | The garden has springs and mature plantings of ethnobotanical Hawaiian plants that are in good condition despite a period of neglect. | | | The plant collections focus on native Hawaiian plants, Polynesian introductions, and plants of island ecosystems. |
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http://www.svpa.hawaii.edu/sciref/oahugrdns.html
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| | Botany Encyclopedia of Plants and Botanical Dictionary |
| | Our Plant Encyclopedia provides information regarding the general description of the plants, the various methods of cultivation, such as indoor or outdoor planting, soil and temperature requirements, pruning, and other important details, the means of propagation (seeds, cuttings, division, etc.), and the different varieties and hybrids. | | | When buying plants and seeds from the garden and plant store, you should first check with Botany.com for the appropriate temperature and climate zones, since some plants and seeds do not do well under certain climatic and temperature conditions. | | | Our easy to use directory of plants and gardening information includes, annuals, bulbs, cactus, succulents, fruit, grass, water plants, herbs, spices, houseplants, perennials, shrubs, bushes, trees, vegetables, vines, crawlers, wild flowers, pest control, plant diseases and a helpful dictionary of botanical words. |
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http://www.botany.com
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| | botanical garden |
| | Botanical gardens perform diversified functions, e.g., the collection and cultivation of plants from all parts of the world, experimentation in plant breeding and hybridization, the maintenance of botanical libraries and herbariums, and the administration of educational programs for adults and children. | | | is a botanical garden devoted chiefly to the growing of woody plants. | | | The plants in botanical gardens are labeled, usually with both the common and the scientific names, and they are often arranged in cultural or habitat groups, such as rock gardens, aquatic gardens, desert gardens, and tropical gardens. |
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http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A0808449.html
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| | Selected Botanical WWW Sites |
| | The Biota of North America Program, of the North Carolina Botanical Garden, no longer provides online plant species name data. | | | International Plant Names Index - a database of the names and associated basic bibliographical details of all seed plants. | | | S - Swedish Museum of Natural History - the collections page links to descriptons and search screens for its collections and databases, including: The Nordic Herbarium, The Regnellian Herbarium, The General Herbarium, The Linnean Herbarium, the Swartz Herbarium and the Botanical type collection. |
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http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/natsci/herbarium/links/botselec.htm
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| | Botanical Gardens |
| | Picking/gathering of fruits, flowers, seed and other plants is prohibited. | | | Sixty acres of the inner slope and basin is now cultivated with rare and endangered dryland plants. | | | Visitors can drive or stroll through the lush gardens which feature plantings from major tropical regions around the world. |
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http://www.hawaiiweb.com/html/hiking/botanical_garden_trails.html
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| | Botanical Garden |
| | In the Botanical Garden our plants are shown in different plant sections and special gardens. | | | The plant collection in the Botanical Garden consists of living plants from all parts of the world. | | | Botanical Garden belongs to the University of Oslo and is a part of The Natural History Museums and Botanical Garden. |
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http://www.toyen.uio.no/botanisk/bothage/garden_intro.html
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| | Foster Botanical Garden, City and County of Honolulu |
| | FOSTER BOTANICAL GARDEN is home to a collection of rare and beautiful plants from the tropical regions of the world. | | | Foster Garden traces its beginning to 1853 when Queen Kalama leased a small area of land to William Hillebrand, a young German doctor. | | | In addition to being a pleasant place to visit, Foster Botanical Garden is a living museum of tropical plants, some rare and endangered, which have been collected from throughout the world's tropics over a period of 150 years. |
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http://www.co.honolulu.hi.us/parks/hbg/fbg.htm
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| | botanical encyclopedia |
| | Welcome to Botany.Com, the Encyclopedia of Plants, Flowers and the Garden and Plant Store. | | | Botany is the scientific study of plant life. | | | Botanical medicine is a vital component of the healing arts that draws on the accumulated and developing knowledge of the medicinal properties of plants......(Continue Reading) |
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http://www.jolietpages.com/botanical-encyclopedia.html
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| | botanical encyclopedia - The encyclopedia Spot |
| | Search our online plant encyclopedia by botanical name for information on the characteristics, applications, soil requirements, sun requirements and hardiness zones for deer resistant plants. | | | Search for plants based on both of their primary botanical names... | | | Botanical Name Search of the Online Plant Encyclopedia. |
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http://www.ecaseload.com/botanical-encyclopedia
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| | Alaska Botanical Garden |
| | With over 1,100 species of hardy perennials, and 150 native plant species, the Alaska Botanical Garden is the place to experience the abundance of the summer arctic growing season and to learn about flora native to southcentral Alaska. | | | From May through September (and occasionally into October) you will find flowering plants and shrubs in two perennial gardens, a formal herb garden, an alpine rock garden, and our wildflower walk. | | | The mission of the Alaska Botanical Garden is to enhance the beauty and value of plant material through education, preservation, recreation, and research by being Alaska's leading organization fostering botanical and horticultural information. |
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| | Boston.com / Your Life / House & Home / Botanical art branching out in contemporary directions |
| | "And as a botanical illustrator you can show a bud, a flower, and a fruit in the same composition." | | | Botanical artist and show curator Sarah Roche suggested native plants as a subject for a 50th anniversary show because it celebrates something that is unique to the region -- and under threat from development and invasive species. | | | Botanical illustrators usually provide plant images to accompany texts, such as "The Encyclopedia of Essential Oils," which Roche illustrated. |
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http://www.boston.com/yourlife/home/articles/2005/01/13/botanical_art_branching_out_in_contemporary_directions?pg=full
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| | Hawaii's Botanical & Public Gardens |
| | These gardens work together to develop conservation plant collections, to conduct research on propagation of endangered plants and in studies of restoration ecology. | | | In addition, public and private "botanical gardens" exist which contain superb plant collections, but do not provide labeling or maintain records on the plants in the collection. | | | The collaborative efforts of these botanical gardens are crucial to the continued existence of Hawai'i's endangered plants. |
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http://www.hawaii.edu/sciref/botgarden.html
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| | Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens - Learn About Our Programs |
| | Objective: To be able to make tonal drawings using special papers with powdered carbon dust. | | | Learn to use simple techniques to identify these colors of white and their areas of lack of light, and how to render them on paper. | | | The second in a series of courses will cover the painting of a full, cupped-shaped rose; the use of both cool and warm colors to give shape, structure, and depth; and the blending and gradation of color. |
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http://www.phipps.conservatory.org/learn/education/ccourse/botanical.html
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| | Sheffield Botanical Gardens Home Page |
| | The Gardens are also well known for their Grade II* listed curvilinear Glass Pavilions, some of the earliest ever built. | | | WELCOME TO Sheffield Botanical Gardens is a 19 acre garden, first opened in 1836. | | | Originally designed by Robert Marnock, in the Gardenesque style, the site contains the largest collection of listed buildings in a Sheffield garden and a number of other interesting features. |
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http://www.sbg.org.uk
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| | Botanical Prints |
| | - various flowers such as amaryllis, fuchsias, petunias, zinnias and azaleas from a German botanical. | | | This work is generally considered as being of very high entomological and botanical quality. | | | - Decorative prints of many familiar and exotic plants from "The Botanical Register" by Sydenham Edwards. |
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http://www.raremaps.de/botanicalprints.html
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| | Honolulu Botanical Gardens, City and County of Honolulu |
| | Here selective planting and water conservation techniques transform this landscape into a garden where plants suitable to these desert-like surroundings can thrive and flourish. | | | Plants from various geographical areas of the world are grown to support the scientific study of plants. | | | This 27-acre garden and forested ravine dates back to the 1920s when this land was first used by sugar planters as an experimental arboretum. |
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http://www.co.honolulu.hi.us/parks/hbg
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| | Botanical Review Team: What is a Botanical Drug? |
| | A dietary supplement is a product taken by mouth that contains a dietary ingredient intended to supplement the diet. | | | A botanical drug product consists of vegetable materials, which may include plant materials, algae, macroscopic fungi, or combinations thereof. | | | A botanical drug product is intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment or prevention of disease in humans. |
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http://www.fda.gov/cder/Offices/ODE_V_BRT/botanicalDrug.htm
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| | Mamiku Gardens - botanical gardens in St Lucia |
| | Come and experience the wonderful colours and scents of flowers such as this frangipani. | | | Mamiku Gardens are the finest botanical gardens in St Lucia - truly an unforgettable natural experience! | | | The gardens are situated on the site of a 18th-century plantation with a colourful history |
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http://www.mamiku.com
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| | Arboretums, Botanical Gardens, Gardens, and Conservatory Links at CloseRange |
| | If we have missed your favorites, please forgive us. | | | Arboretums, Botanical Gardens, Gardens, and Conservatory Links at CloseRange | | | NY (Foundation) Wanye, PA - The Bronx, NY Wallingford, PA ZOO and BOTANICAL GARDEN |
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http://www.closerange.com/links/botan.htm
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| | FDA Issues Final Guidance for Industry Regarding Botanical Drug Products |
| | A botanical product may be a drug, food, medical device, or cosmetic, and it is generally regulated depending on its intended use, not its content. | | | When a botanical product is intended for use in diagnosing, mitigating, treating, curing and/or preventing disease, the product is regulated as a “drug.” | | | Botanical drugs may be marketed under an OTC drug monograph if the indication is subject to nonprescription use (i.e., the drug is indicated for a condition that is self-diagnosable, self-treatable, and, in most cases, self-limiting). |
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http://www.herbalgram.org/iherb/herbalgram/articleview.asp?a=2741&p=Y
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| | Major Parks - Wilburton Hill Park and Bellevue Botanical Garden |
| | Botanical Garden: Picnic tables are situated in a grass area adjacent to the Garden's parking lot. | | | Natural grass seating areas allow great views of two regulation softball fields, located east of the main parking lot. | | | The park offers ballfields, a play area and numerous hiking trails, and the Bellevue Botanical Garden contains 36 acres of lush flower gardens and landscaping. |
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http://www.ci.bellevue.wa.us/page.asp?view=2111
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| | Kanapaha Botanical Gardens |
| | GRU also partnered with the North Florida Botanical Society to design a reclaimed water garden at the Botanical Gardens that simulated a "spring to sink" Florida ecosystem. | | | The purity of reclaimed water has caused the water garden to flourish, as it now is home to large predators such as alligators— a sign that the water garden ecosystem is vigorous. | | | Kanapaha Botanical Gardens is the site of GRU's first water reuse project designed to demonstrate the safety and beauty of reclaimed water. |
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http://www.gru.com/OurEnvironment/WaterQuality/WaterReuse/kanapaha.jsp
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| | Connecticut Botanical Society |
| | Meetings are held in spring and autumn, each with an illustrated lecture by a naturalist or other scientist. | | | We maintain the Connecticut Botanical Society Herbarium, a "dried plant library" with over 36,000 sheets of plants. | | | Connecticut Botanical Society is open to anyone interested in plants, conservation, and natural history. |
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http://www.ct-botanical-society.org
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| | Huntington Botanical Gardens |
| | Approximately 15,000 kinds of plants from all over the world make up the botanical collections, many landscaped into a series of theme gardens. | | | Now they span nearly 150 acres with sweeping lawns and vistas interspersed with statuary, tempiettos, and benches. | | | Henry Huntington began developing the Botanical Gardens in 1903. |
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http://www.huntington.org/BotanicalDiv/HEHBotanicalHome.html
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| | BSA Image Collection |
| | Botanical images suitable for instructional use may be submitted in the form of 35 mm color or black-and-white slides or large-format digital images (ideally in the range of approximately 1600 X 1200 pixels) with minimal or no compression and preferably no watermark label on the image. | | | With the popularization of the Internet, images were scanned into digital format to make the collection more readily available. | | | All rights to reproduce these images are retained by the Botanical Society of America and the copyright owner. |
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http://images.botany.org
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| | XVI International Botanical Congress |
| | The International Botanical Congress (IBC) is a major convention of scientists from around the world to discuss new research in the plant sciences. | | | The IBC is held only once every six years, and last met in North America in Seattle in 1969. | | | The XVI IBC is held under the auspices of the International Union of Biological Sciences (IUBS), most recently through the International Association of Botanical and Mycological Societies (IABMS) of the IUBS. |
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http://www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/b-online/ibc99/ibc/www_ibc99_org.html
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| | Amazon.com: Books: A Passion for Plants: Contemporary Botanical Masterworks |
| | A New Flowering: 1000 Years of Botanical Art by Shirley Sherwood | | | Shirley Sherwood has brought together her remarkable collection of modern botanical paintings (and some ink renderings) in "A Passion for Plants: Contemporary Botanical Masterworks" and made them accessible to the public. | | | How to Draw Plants: The Techniques of Botanical Illustration by Keith West |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0304361666?v=glance
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| | Curtis's Botanical Magazine - Journal Information |
| | Detailed but readable texts combine horticultural and botanical information with such topics as history, conservation and economic uses of a world-wide range of plants. | | | Each four-part volume of the Magazine contains 24 botanically precise plant portraits reproduced from watercolour originals by some of the world's leading botanical artists. | | | Curtis's Botanical Magazine has been published continuously since 1787 although there have been several series within the overall sequence. |
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http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=1355-4905&site=1
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| | Missouri Botanical Garden |
| | The garden also features the Climatron Complex, water lily reflection ponds and the William T. Kemper Center for Home Gardening. | | | The Saint Louis Front Page is owned and maintained by the Moore Design Group for the sole purpose of disseminating news and information about the Metropolitan Saint Louis area. | | | he Missouri Botanical Garden, fondly known as Shaw's Garden to St. Louisans, contains a formal English garden, traditional Japanese garden, Margaret Blanke Grigg Chinese garden, the Flower Trial Garden, greenhouses and extensive landscaping. |
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http://www.slfp.com/ShawsGardens.html
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| | Botanicalmedicine.org The Homepage of Herbal Educational Services |
| | It is our conclusion, after many years of studying and consulting with experts in the field of natural health that botanical medicine, along with changes in diet and lifestyle, offers a more effective, less invasive and less expensive method of managing most chronic diseases. | | | We have over 500 audio tapes available covering a wide range of botanical medicine topics that have been presented at various conferences since 1996. | | | Our goal is to make the highest quality information on herbal medicine available to interested health professionals and the general public. |
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http://www.botanicalmedicine.org
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| | Botanical treks & Excursion - Tours in Nepal, Trekking in Nepal, Jungle Safari in Nepal, Adventure Sports in Nepal, ... |
| | Botanical treks & Excursion - Tours in Nepal, Trekking in Nepal, Jungle Safari in Nepal, Adventure Sports in Nepal, Panoramic Tours, Mountaineering in Nepal, Trekkins Peak Climbing, Out Bound Tours, Hotels Booking Nepal | | | Botanical treks and Excursion is a company having a dedicated team of experienced professional staffs; trekking guides, Sherpas and other necessary experts required. | | | Botanical Treks and Excursion operates special Botanical Expedition project jointly with foreign Botanist researcher and environmental scientists. |
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http://www.botanicaltreks.com
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| | San Antonio Botanical Garden 555 Funston San Antonio, Texas 78209 |
| | Sightsee from A to Z! Please Note: "Membership Rates are Increasing May 1. | | | Operated under the auspices of the City of San Antonio Parks and Recreation Department, the San Antonio Botanical Garden encompasses 33 acres in the center of the city of San Antonio at 555 Funston @ North New Braunfels Avenue. | | | "Presented by SBC Foundation" - Life-size dinosaurs are once again lurking in the tropical foliage of the 33-acre San Antonio Botanical Garden - Dinosaurus Tex arrived at the Garden on Labor Day Weekend (September 3 through December 4)!! |
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http://www.sabot.org
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| | Arboretum and botanical gardens of New York |
| | See what other botanical garden curators are doing with The Compleat Botanica Botanical Garden Software from Crescent Bloom. | | | If you're looking for an even easier way to research information about your favorite plants, read the introductory tutorial Software to Organize your Plant Data. | | | [ Arboretum and botanical gardens of New England (United States) ] |
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http://www.crescentbloom.com/II/E/07b.htm
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| | The University of California Botanical Garden |
| | The opportunity to support this outstanding botanical garden is the most important reason for becoming a member. | | | The University of California Botanical Garden 200 Centennial Drive #5045 Berkeley, CA 94720-5045 510-643-2755 | | | As a member you are invited to participate in a variety of activities, including lectures, workshops, behind the scenes tours, symposia with widely known speakers and special events. |
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http://botanicalgarden.berkeley.edu
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| | UC Davis Herbarium - Davis Botanical Society |
| | Access to the Botanical Conservatory pre-sale (a special sale of house plants, succulents, orchids, and carnivorous plants that is held the day before the annual arboretum Plant Faire) | | | We are a friendly group of plant enthusiasts that love to learn more about plants and get outdoors to see them! | | | Members enjoy the knowledge that they are supporting two invaluable UC Davis botanical collections that benefit all Californians. |
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http://herbarium.ucdavis.edu/society.html
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| | Staten Island Botanical Garden |
| | Throughout history gardens have reflected some of the tastes of the periods and the ways in which man saw his relationship to nature. | | | Remaining true to this purpose, the Staten Island Botanical Garden has created a number of gardens which include representations from particular periods along with contemporary styles. | | | Nestled within the grounds of the Snug Harbor Cultural Center, The Staten Island Botanical Garden with its Victorian charm and stately elegance is a "must visit" that should be on every tourists' list. |
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http://www.sibg.org/indexmain.html
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| | THE BOTANICAL REVIEW |
| | New information can and sometimes should be incorporated into the articles, but The Botanical Review is not the place for articles primarily concerned with presenting a limited set of new data. | | | It is to be hoped that these syntheses can be read and understood by other botanists less well informed than the authors. | | | Enough papers should be cited to document the information and interpretation presented, to help the reader learn how we arrived at the present state of understanding, and to demonstrate that the author is thoroughly familiar with the literature in his or her field. |
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http://www.nybg.org/bsci/spub/botr/frontpge.html
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| | GardenWeb Glossary of Botanical Terms |
| | The form below allows you to search the glossary for one or more keywords. | | | If you encounter any problems, or feel that there are terms that should be in the database and are not, please let us know. | | | he GardenWeb Glossary of Botanical Terms currently contains 4400 terms relating to botany, gardening, horticulture and landscape architecture and is regularly updated. |
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http://www.gardenweb.com/glossary
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| | Pure Botanical handcrafted soaps |
| | Natural grainy Oatmeal is the perfect choice for a deep-down body scrub that is both throrough and, at the same time, gentle. | | | from Herbs, Botanical Extracts, Essential Oils, Cocoa & Shea Butters, and Plant Oils. | | | Product Price: U.S. Product Price: U.S. Pure Botanical |
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