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Use for: Umbelliferae

• A large family of plants. The plants are often fragrant or aromatic, that have small flowers borne in umbels and include numerous economically important plants (as the carrot, anise, caraway, dill, and parsley)Plants distributed throughout a wide variety of habitats, principally in the north temperate regions of the world. A number of species are economically important as leaf and root vegetables, herbs and spices, and garden ornamentals. Commonly known as the parsley family.

• Here are entered works on the design and style of structures are entered under [Architecture.] Works on the process of construction. General works on structures or edifices are entered under [Buildings.]

• Here are entered general works on the visual arts. Works on the arts in general, including the visual arts, literature, and the performing arts, are entered under [Arts.]

Use for: bamboo

• Bamboo. Subfamily of tall treelike grasses of the family Poaceae, comprising more than 115 genera and 1,400 species. Bamboos are distributed in tropical and subtropical to mild temperate regions, with the heaviest concentration and largest number of species in East and Southeast Asia and on islands of the Indian and Pacific oceans. A few species of the genus Arundinaria are native to the southern United States, where they form dense canebrakes along riverbanks and in marshy areas.

Use for: Younger Botanic Garden, Benmore Younger Botanic Garden

Use for: birch

• a plant family of woody flowering plants. Commonly known as the birch family.

• refers Patrick Blair's work relating to the dissection an elephant that died on 27 April 1706 in Scotland. The elephant was touring the UK at the time of its death.
• The elephant first appears in historical records in October 1688, in the accounts for the annual Michaelmas Fair at Leipzig in Saxony.

Use for: Borage

• A family of herbs, shrubs, or trees (order Polemoniales) of wide distribution distinguished mainly by circinate inflorescence and nutlike fruit. Commonly known as the forget-me-not family.

• The Botanic Cottage originally stood at the entrance to a long lost incarnation of Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE), across the city on Leith Walk. It was built in 1764-5, was both the home of the principal gardener and the main entrance to the Garden. It contained a classroom where every medical student was taught botany during the height of the Scottish Enlightenment. In 2016, it was moved stone by stone across Edinburgh, and rebuilt in our Demonstration Garden, where schools, students and community groups have plots. It was rebuilt with all of the stones and timbers going back in the correct places, and finished so that it looks as good as it did 250 years ago.

• 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.