botanic gardens

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  • botanical garden, originally, a collection of living plants designed chiefly to illustrate relationships within plant groups. In modern times, most botanical gardens are concerned primarily with exhibiting ornamental plants, insofar as possible in a scheme that emphasizes natural relationships. Thus, the two functions are blended: eye appeal and taxonomic order.

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        Chelsea Physic Garden
        Corporate body · 1673-Present

        London's oldest botanic garden. Established in 1673, by the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries of London, Chelsea Physic Garden is home to over 4,500 medicinal, edible and useful plants.

        Mission:
        To demonstrate the medicinal, economic, cultural and environmental importance of plants to the survival and well-being of humankind.