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	Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne are botanical gardens located near the centre of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, on the south bank of the Yarra River.
		The gardens are governed under the Royal Botanic Gardens Act of 1991 by the Board of the Royal Botanic Gardens, who are responsible to the Minister for Environment.
		The Royal Botanic Gardens managed this by moving the flying foxes to Horseshoe Bend in Ivanhoe, and by disturbing the flying foxes and providing a familiar environment.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Royal_Botanic_Gardens,_Melbourne (795 words)

	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, usually referred to simply as Kew Gardens, are extensive gardens and botanical glasshouses between Richmond upon Thames and Kew in southwest London, England.
		The "Dutch House" adjoining was purchased by George III in 1781 as a nursery for the royal children.
		In 1840 the gardens were adopted as a national botanical garden.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Royal_Botanic_Gardens,_Kew (997 words)

	Royal Botanic Gardens - Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
		Kerr died in 1814 and under the rule of his successor Mr Alexander Moon this Garden was finally moved to Peradeniya in 1821 as it was found to be favorable and better adapted for the proposed Botanic establishment.
		During Moon's superintendent the opening of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Peradeniya, can be said to have commenced though at first only the South West portion of the Gardens was cleared and opened and it was mostly planted with cinnamon and coffee.
		Botanic Gardens at Hakgala was established in 1861 for introduction of Cinchona into the island and in 1876 Gampaha (Henarathgoda) Botanic Garden was started for the introduction of Rubber.
	www.agridept.gov.lk /NBG/RBG.htm (708 words)

	Botanic Gardens
		The Cruickshank Botanic Garden - Located in a low-lying and fairly sheltered area of Aberdeen, less than a mile from the North Sea, this 11-acre garden is partly owned and financed by the University of Aberdeen and partly by the Cruickshank Botanic Gardens Trust.
		Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh - Founded in the 17th century, RBGE now extends to 31 hectares (at Inverleith in Edinburgh) and incorporates specialist gardens at three very different locations in Scotland (Younger, mild oceanic climate; Logan, almost subtropical; and Dawyck, cool and dry).
		Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew - Overview of the spectacular gardens and issues of Kew Scientist newsletter, as well as access to some of the Royal Botanic Gardens databases.
	www.ability.org.uk /botanic_gardens.html (416 words)

	Royal Botanic Gardens, Calcutta Index , American Philosophical Society
		Founded in 1787, the Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta, was the leading center for botanical investigation in the English South Asian colonies.
		Founded by the East India Company in 1787, the Royal Botanic Garden in Calcutta, India, (now the Indian Botanic Garden) was one of the largest tropical gardens in the world during the nineteenth century, supporting a vast herbarium that became the core of the present day Central National Herbarium of India.
		Specializing in the native flora from all of the regions of India, the Garden was an important source for the cultivation of orchids, bamboos, and palms, and was an important supplier of plants to Kew and other European gardens.
	www.amphilsoc.org /library/mole/r/royal.htm (391 words)

	Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney - Voyager, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Royal Botanic Gardens in Sydney, Australia, are the largest of three major botanical gardens open to the public in Sydney, along with the Mount Annan Botanic Garden and the Mount Tomah Botanic Garden.
		The Botanic Gardens are situated overlooking Farm Cove, directly east of the Sydney Opera House, Circular Quay and Macquarie Street.
		The 30 hectares of garden, established in 1816 along with the adjoining Domain, were originally designated as the private garden of the Governor of New South Wales, but were made open to the public within fifteen years.
	voyager.in /Royal_Botanic_Gardens,_Sydney (245 words)

	Royal Botanic Gardens - Parks, Gardens & Cemeteries - Sightseeing - Only Melbourne
		The Grey Garden surrounds the delightful Temple of the Winds, built in honour of Charles La Trobe, and provides a sweeping view across the Yarra River to the city.
		The great trees of the Royal Botanic Gardens are spectacular throughout the year, but Autumn is a particularly special time when the elms, oaks, and many other deciduous trees explode into a mass of vibrant yellow, red and orange.
		In this garden, large drifts of perennials are interspersed with sculptural, ornamental plants.
	www.onlymelbourne.com.au /melbourne_details.php?id=1160 (678 words)

	United Kingdom, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
		The first botanic garden at Kew was founded in 1759 by Princess Augusta, as Physic Garden, containing medicinal plants.
		In 1841 the royal gardens transferred property from the crown to the state, and opened to the public.
		Today the Botanic Gardens serves as a center of botanical research and maintains one of the largest plant collection in the world.
	leonardfrank.com /WorldHeritage/Kew.html (99 words)

	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, scientific institution occupying over 120 hectares (300 acres) of garden and woodland beside the River Thames between...
		While buildings to protect tender plants had been made since the 16th century, and orangeries had been developed since the early 17th, large...
		The Royal Botanic Gardens, better known as Kew Gardens, near London, founded in 1759 and now a World...
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Royal_Botanic_Gardens_Kew.html (129 words)

	Royal Botanic Gardens of Trinidad
		The Gardens are comprised of twenty-five (25) hectares of beautifully landscaped grounds located north of the capital city of Port of Spain.
		The Royal Botanic Gardens, established in 1818, is one of the oldest gardens in the West Indies which has had a continuous existence.
		Today, the gardens consist of approximately seven hundred (700) trees of which thirteen percent (13%) are indigenous to Trinidad and Tobago.
	www.visittnt.com /ToDo/Eco/BotanicalGardens (255 words)

	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew - UNESCO World Heritage Centre
		This historic landscape garden features elements that illustrate significant periods of the art of gardens from the 18th to the 20th centuries.
		Criterion ii: Since the 18th century, the Botanic Gardens of Kew have been closely associated with scientific and economic exchanges established throughout the world in the field of botany, and this is reflected in the richness of its collections.
		Criterion iv: The landscape gardens and the edifices created by celebrated artists such as Charles Bridgeman, William Kent, Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown and William Chambers reflect the beginning of movements which were to have international influence.
	whc.unesco.org /en/list/1084 (243 words)

	JAMAICA - A premier caribbean travel destination featuring the resort areas of Montego Bay, Negril, Ocho Rios, ...
		The Royal Botanical Gardens at Hope, popularly called Hope Gardens serves as a national attraction and is frequented by visitors from near and far.
		The formal Botanic Gardens were laid out on approximately 60 acres of this land with the assistance of personnel from the Kew Gardens in England.
		In the 1950's, the Queen, after visiting the island and being pleased with the state of the gardens, gave permission for it to be called the Royal Botainc Gardens, Hope.
	www.visitjamaica.com /resorts/kingston/attractions_gardens_general.aspx?guid=afe70434-e306-47f6-96d1-e4359c9140c9 (323 words)

	Sydney's Royal Botanic Gardens
		Deeper within the gardens you'll find the Herb Garden, The Fernery, a formal Rose Garden, Succulent Garden, the newly completed Oriental Garden and a section dedicated to Rare and Threatened Plants of the World which includes a specimen of one of the rarest plants in the world, the recently discovered Wollemi Pine.
		Admission is free to all features of the gardens with the exception of the Tropical Centre which costs around $3.30 for adults, $8.80 for families and $2.20 for concession.
		The Royal Botanic Gardens are stop number 3 on the Sydney Explorer route.
	www.discoversydney.com.au /parks/rbg.html (391 words)

	Real Jardín Botánico de Madrid - Calendario de actividades, exposiciones, cursos y demás eventos
		The Garden is open to the public every day of the year except Christmas Day and New Year's Day, from 10 am until the sunset (6 pm in winter, 9 pm in summer).
		The foundation of the Royal Botanic Garden of Madrid was ordered by King Ferdinand VI in 1755 and, during the reign of Charles III, the Garden was installed in its present location, the Paseo del Prado in Madrid.
		The Garden became part of the Spanish Council for Scientific Research (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, CSIC) in 1939 and was declared Artistic Garden in 1942.
	www.rjb.csic.es /infov_eng.php (344 words)

	The culling of grey headed flying foxes Pteropus poliocephalus in the Royal Melbourne Botanic Gardens, Victoria, ...
		A walk through the Gardens shows that most visitors are undisturbed by the bats (as shown from this picnic spot overlooking Fern Gully).
		Given that most of the trees in Fern Gully are not growing in their natural habitat, they need more care, not less, than specimens in the Botanic Gardens of Sydney and Brisbane where there are also GHFF colonies.
		The bats settled in the Gardens many years ago, probably because much of their natural habitat along the coast of New South Wales has been cleared for timber, agriculture and urban development.
	www.austrop.org.au /ghff/damage_to_gardens.htm (1068 words)

	Royal Botanic Gardens
		The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew is one of the world's most internationally acclaimed Botanical gardens, attracting over one million visitors a year.
		It is also an internationally respected centre of scientific excellence, identifying and classifying plants, researching their structure, chemistry and genetics; collecting endangered species; maintaining reference collections and sharing all this knowledge world wide.
		The gardens then spring to life with magnificent colour displays, starting with crocuses in March, through to bluebells in May. During the summer, starting in early June, the main colour featured throughout the gardens will be gold.
	www.stringofpearls.org.uk /pearl13/pea13.html (231 words)

	Royal Botanic Gardens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Royal Botanic Gardens, established in 1816, occupying a huge waterfront area east of Circular Quay, is sandwiched between the Opera House and The Domain.
		The gardens provide some of the most stunning views of Sydney Harbour and are always crowded with workers at lunchtime, picnickers on fine weekends, and lovers beneath the trees or in the popular café/restaurant.
		Within the northern boundaries of the park, the sandstone mansion glimpsed through a garden and enclosure is the Gothic Revival-style Government House (built 1837-45), seat of the governor of New South Wales, and still used for official engagements by the governor who now lives in a private residence.
	www.pacificislandtravel.com /australia/newsouthwales/syd_royalbotanicgardens.asp (520 words)

	PACSOA - Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney
		Pritchardia maideniana is a palm species that was until recently known only by two old trees in Sydney's Royal Botanic Gardens (Figure 15), having been lost in the wild, its origin unknown.
		Apparently some of their descendants moved over to the Botanic Gardens to join the feral pigeons and seagulls.
		In their natural habitat these birds are very wary, but those in the Gardens have become tame enough to accept food from the hand of a picnicker.
	www.pacsoa.org.au /places/Sydney/index02.html (549 words)

	Sydney, Royal Botanic Gardens
		Sydney can be thankful for The Royal Botanic Gardens and the Domain as their size and location provides the perfect respite from the busy city.
		A network of paths criss-cross the Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain (which is to the south and east of the gardens) providing literally hours of walking trails.
		The Royal Botanic Gardens were originally created as farmland for the fledgling city of Sydney.
	www.auinfo.com /sydney_royal_botanic_gardens.htm (569 words)

	National & Royal Botanic Gardens of Scotland
		The National Botanic Gardens of Scotland comprise four separate gardens - at Edinburgh, Benmore (near Dunoon in Argyll), at Logan (near Stranraer in Galloway), and at Dawyck (near Peebles in the Borders) - which collectively represent the second richest collection of plant species in the world.
		The gardens are first and foremost scientific institutions, dedicated to discovering and describing plants and their relationships, evolution, conservation and biology.
		Other botanic gardens around Scotland that are well worth a visit include those in Aberdeen, Cove, Dundee, Glasgow and St Andrews.
	www.visitscotland.com /library/NationalBotanicGardens (158 words)

	Do Australia - royal botanic gardens
		Behind the Opera House and to the east of Circular Quay are the city's largest gardens—30 hectares-worth (75 acres) of growing grounds for approximately 7,500 species of plants and trees.
		Dating from 1816, the garden was the early colony's first farm and the spot where convicts planted their first vegetable plots.
		Among the not-to-be-missed features are the National Herbarium of New South Wales, Sydney Tropical Centre with its two glass houses, and the succulent and rose gardens.
	www.doaustralia.com /states/NSW/RoyalBotanicGardens.htm (133 words)

	Botany Photo of the Day: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew - Cacti Beds
		An archival photograph from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in Surrey, England.
		At UBC Botanical Garden, we've recently received funding to modify our unused glasshouse in the Alpine Garden to create an open-air glasshouse that will protect a collection of Opuntia and other cacti from the winter-wet of our climate.
		Botany Photo of the Day is a project of the UBC Botanical Garden and Centre for Plant Research, located in Vancouver, British Columbia Canada.
	www.ubcbotanicalgarden.org /potd/2005/07/royal_botanic_g.php (407 words)

	AusEmade: Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney, New South Wales (NSW), Australia
		The Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney occupy one of Sydney's most spectacular positions located around Farm Cove on the edge of Sydney Harbour.
		There is much to see and enjoy for the plant and garden lover, including orchids, roses and the Bromeliaceae family.
		A garden display that tells the story of the Cadigal people, the traditional Aboriginal owners of the Sydney city area, and features plants that originally grew on the site of the Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney.
	www.ausemade.com.au /nsw/destination/s/sydney-royal-botanic-gardens.htm (590 words)

	Royal Botanic Gardens ("Kew Gardens")- London, United Kingdom - VirtualTourist.com
		The gardens are a mix of order and wildness it seems to me. They have formal landscaped sections, green houses and less cultivated areas.
		The Royal Botanic Gardens or as mostly known The Kew Gardens is host to one of the largest collections of plants from around the world.
		The gardens were created by combing two royal estates in 1772, under the patronage of George III Kew Gardens developed into one of the world's foremost centres of horticultural research.
	www.virtualtourist.com /travel/Europe/United_Kingdom/England/Greater_London/London-309228/Things_To_Do-London-Royal_Botanic_Gardens_Kew_Gardens-BR-1.html (1724 words)

	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney Australia - sydney.com.au
		The Royal Botanic Gardens, which are just a short walk around the water's edge from the Sydney Opera House, is one of the most breathtakingly beautiful settings you will see anywhere, with the gardens filling an area of land between the harbour and the eastern part of the central business district.
		The gardens sit on the side of an undulating piece of land and the harbour views from up on the hill are superb.
		The gardens are an excellent place to escape the noise of the city and are situated quite close to some of the major city hotels around Hyde Park.
	www.sydney.com.au /rbg.htm (282 words)

	SkyTeam - Events Guide: Royal Botanic Gardens (Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney, Australia)
		The Royal Botanic Gardens offer not only marvellous views (particularly at sunset) of Sydney's harbour, Opera House and Harbour Bridge, but also a tranquil haven in one of the most bustling cities of the world.
		The Royal Botanic Gardens has, in its time, housed Sydney's first zoo (1862) and the Garden Palace (in the Domain) of the 1879 International Exhibition.
		Two additional gardens were added in 1987 and 1988: Mount Tomah, a cool climate garden in the Blue Mountains, and Mount Annan, a native plant garden in southwest Sydney.
	events.skyteam.com /sisp/?fx=event&event_id=99784 (363 words)

	Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
		The Royal Botanic Gardens, in partnership with six other organizations, was recently named the winner of the Banksia Land and Biodiversity Award for its threatened orchid recovery project.
		The Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne is delighted to be producing these coasters in partnership with Maxwell and Williams.
		Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne incorporates the National Herbarium of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne, Royal Botanic Gardens Cranbourne and the Australian Research Centre for Urban Ecology.
	www.rbg.vic.gov.au (437 words)

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