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	The History of Botanic Gardens
		The University of Oxford botanic garden was the first garden established in the United Kingdom in 1621 with a mission to promote learning and the glory of god.
		Gardens such as the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and the Real Jardín Botánico de Madrid were set up to try and cultivate new species that were being brought back from expeditions to the tropics.
		Missouri botanic garden is an exception to this and was the first botanic garden to be established in the United States of America in 1859.
	www.bgci.org /botanic_gardens/history (842 words)

	Services to OUS members : Oxford University Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The The Ashmolean is a museum of the University of Oxford.
		In October 2002, it was appointed the Orchestra in Residence at The University of Oxford.
		Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford.
	www.alumni.ox.ac.uk /services/alumnicard/university/index.shtml (1470 words)

	Botanic Garden : Oxford University Graduate Studies Prospectus 2007/08
		The Botanic Garden, a Grade 1 listed garden founded in 1621, is the oldest botanic garden in Britain and its mission statement, carved in Latin on the stone arch at the entrance to the Garden, is 'to promote learning and glorify the work of God'.
		It is one of the first botanic gardens in the World to arrange its plants according to the new plant taxonomy as proposed by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group.
		The Garden also plays an active role in the conservation of a number of plants, including Euphorbia stygiana and Pulsatilla vulgaris amongst others, and is involved with the UK's response to the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation.
	www.admin.ox.ac.uk /postgraduate/studying/gardens.shtml (299 words)

	Botanic Garden Web Directory
		The Memphis Botanic Garden, Home of the Goldsmith Civic Garden Center, is the cultural crown-jewel of the Mid-South with over 96 acres of sweeping vistas, encompasing lakes, woodlands and...
		The University of California Botanical Garden is a living museum open to the public featuring one of the most diverse plant collections in the United States.
		The Fort Worth Botanic Garden, the oldest botanic garden in Texas, is home to over 2,500 species of native and exotic plants that flourish in its 21 specialty gardens.
	www.garden-webs.com /botanic_garden/index.htm (837 words)

	Botanic Garden, Oxford
		The Oxford Physic Garden, renamed the Oxford Botanic Garden in 1840, was founded in 1621 by Henry Danvers, Earl of Danby, on the present five-acre site.
		It is moreover adorned with a bust of the founder Lord Danby, a statue of Charles I, and another of Charles II.
		The same inscription is on the garden front.-The Garden, which is five acres in circumference, is surrounded by a noble wall, with other portals in the rustic style at proper distances.
	www.headington.org.uk /oxon/high/tour/south/botanic_garden.htm (384 words)

	Virtual Tour of the Botanic Gardens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Established in 1621, the Garden is the third oldest scientific garden in the World (oldest in the UK) and contains over 8, 000 different plant species.
		Within the Walled Garden plants are grouped in a number of different ways such as by country of origin, botanic family or economic use.
		Explore the Virtual Tour by using the interactive map of the Garden.
	www.chem.ox.ac.uk /oxfordtour/botanicgardens/default.html (157 words)

	Hotels near University Of Oxford Botanic Garden
		The hotel's location in the heart of Oxford, the University City, allows guests easy access to the main attractions of Oxford....
		The Randolph is one of Oxfords leading hotels and is situated in the heart of the city opposite the Ashmolean museum.
		Founded in 1621, this botanic garden is the oldest in the country.
	www.activereservations.com /hotel/attr/en/821 (368 words)

	Welcome to Oxford
		The first college, University College, was established in 1249, followed by Balliol in 1263 and the university has grown and been a centre of learning ever since.
		Today it is still a university town, and the combination of it being one of the premier universities of the world, its bright young fashion set amongst its medieval buildings all make it one of the most dynamic cities in the world.
		A trip to Oxford would not be complete without a ride in a punt, entrance under the Magdelen Bridge.
	www.plus44.com /heritage/bodleainr/town/oxford.html (132 words)

	University of Oxford Botanic Garden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The tank in the lily house built in 1851 by Professor Charles Daubeny, Keeper of the Garden at the time, is the oldest existing part of the glasshouses.
		The largest glasshouse in the Garden, this house grows palms and a large number of economic plants including citrus fruits, pepper, sweet potato, pawpaw, olive, coffee, ginger, coconut, cocoa, cotton, and oil palm.
		The Garden was the site of frequent visits in the 1860s by Oxford mathematics professor Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (pen name Lewis Carroll) and the Liddell children, Alice and her sisters.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/University_of_Oxford_Botanic_Garden (1201 words)

	Oxford City \| Green Spaces
		Don't forget lots of the colleges have their own gardens, but some charge a small entrance fee.
		Founded by the Earl of Danby, Henry Danvers as a physic garden in 1621, this is the oldest botanic garden in Britain.
		In amidst the leafy roads and Victorian houses of north Oxford is this pleasant green space.
	www.oxfordcity.co.uk /info/green_spaces.html (499 words)

	Access Guide: Botanic Garden
		The Botanical collection (open air) is displayed within the grade 1 listed walled garden and is all on one level with gravel paths.
		There are plenty of benches spread throughout the Garden to enable visitors to stop and relax.
		Drivers with a disabled badge are able to park in Rose Lane on the pavement, as long as all entrances and exits are not obstructed.
	www.admin.ox.ac.uk /access/departments/botanic.shtml (189 words)

	Chelsea Physic Garden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Chelsea Physic Garden was established as the Apothecaries’ Garden in London in 1673.
		Its rock garden is the oldest English garden devoted to alpine plants.
		In all the pressures to ‘develop’ this classic garden, only the river bank, lost to the construction of the Embankment in 1874 and a strip of the garden to allow widening of Royal Hospital Road have reduced its 3.5 acres (1.4 hectares), now in the heart of London.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chelsea_Physic_Garden (389 words)

	Oxford Botanic Garden - a Gardens Guide review
		Loudon described the garden as 'a venerable establishment.
		Comparing this botanic garden with with all the others in Britain, it as far surpasses them in an architectural point of view, as it is inferior to the best of them in botanical riches'.
		Nearby is a rose garden, designed by Sylvia Crowe, to comemorate the discovery of the first antibiotic.
	www.gardenvisit.com /g/ox2.htm (213 words)

	Oxford - Britain's Finest Hotels, Museums & Galleries, Historic Houses, Gardens, Attractions and B&Bs
		Establishee in 1965, Modern Art Oxford is one of the UK´s leading public galleries renowned for the quality of its exhibitions, archives and publications.
		The Oxford University Museum of Natural History houses Oxford University´s extensive collection of entomological, geological, mineralogical and zoological material of international importance.
		The University of Oxford Botanic Garden is the oldest botanic garden in Britain.
	www.britainsfinest.co.uk /allsearch_results.cfm/searchtown/Oxford (276 words)

	oxford.attractions.botanic-gardens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The University of Oxford Botanic Gardens is the oldest botanic garden in Britain.
		In addition to the botanical family beds there is a range of glasshouses including a Tropical Lily House, Palm House and Arid House.
		Outside the original walled garden there are herbaceous borders, a newly restored bog garden and a rock garden.
	www.oxford.angle.uk.com /attractions/botanicgdn.html (134 words)

	Daily Info - Your Guide to Oxford, UK
		The Kew Gardens website at www.kew.org.uk with information about Kew, the services it offers and a facility for asking them questions.
		The Museum of Garden History www.cix.co.uk/~museumgh/ Articles on the website about aspects of garden history eg.
		If your gardening aims are a little more exotic, consider a visit to Growing Citrus UK, whose website at www.growingcitrus.co.uk will advise you on all aspects of establishing your own vitamin c factory.
	www.dailyinfo.co.uk /whatson/gardens/gardens.html (512 words)

	Museums and Collections : University of Oxford (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The University Museum of Natural History houses the University's scientific collections of zoological, entomological, palaeontological and mineral specimens.
		Six miles south of Oxford is the Harcourt Arboretum, which is home to informal gardens, walks and rides.
		The Arboretum forms an integral part of the plant collection of the Botanic Garden.
	www.ox.ac.uk /museums (351 words)

	Northwest Flower & Garden Show Winners: A step back in time
		Titled "The Joy of Lost Time," the garden evokes a 1950s Skagit Valley garden full of flowering shrubs, vines, daffodils and perennials with a Sunday lunch set out on a table covered in a white cloth, and an old pickup peeking out of the overgrown hedgerow.
		At the beginning of the garden, which is a walk-through, an easel holds a botanical watercolor, as if the artist has just wandered off.
		Each of the 24 display gardens at the show was judged for how well it achieved the intent of the design description.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /nwgardens/258765_winners09.html (1097 words)

	The Virtual Oxford Science Walk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The University Botanic Garden was founded by the Earl of Danby in 1621 as a physic garden, specifically for the growing of herbs and plants for use in medicine and science, and was built on the site of the medieval Jewish cemetry.
		The high walls, which protect tender plants, were built at the founding of the garden, but the layout of the beds dates only from the mid-nineteenth century.
		Jacob the elder was an excellent gardener and botanist, and in 1648 he published the first catalogue of plants in the garden.
	www.mhs.ox.ac.uk /features/walk/loc1.htm (377 words)

	Oxford Botanic Gardens - Photos — richardpettinger.com
		University of Oxford Botanic Garden, the oldest botanic garden in Great Britain, and the third oldest scientific garden in the world, was founded in 1621 as a physic garden growing plants for medicinal research.
		It is one of the most diverse yet compact collections of plants in the world and includes representatives from over 90% of the higher plant families.
		The Botanic Gardens have been frequented by some of Oxford's literary figures notably J.R.R Tolkien and Lewis Carroll.
	www.richardpettinger.com /Interests/pictures/oxford_botanic_gardens (178 words)

	Exhibition celebrates Botanic Garden
		Artist and Southampton Solent University lecturer, John Thomson, continues his unique visual arts project celebrating the diversity of Britain’s oldest botanical garden in a new exhibition.
		The exhibition is not botanic illustration but more a personal drawn response to the seemingly calm oasis of the Oxford University Botanic Garden.
		The Botanic Garden is a national reference collection of 7,000 different types of plant, making it the most compact yet diverse collection of plants in the world - even more than the tropical rain forests and other biodiversity hotspots.
	www.solent.ac.uk /news/newsarchive/2006/march/r25y06.aspx (376 words)

	Oxford Things to Do Tips by mar1956tin - VirtualTourist.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Botanic Gardens: The oldest botanical gardens in the United Kingdom
		The Botanical Gardens are part of The University of Oxford, first established in 1621, making them one of the oldest scientific garden's in the World and by far the oldest in the UK.
		The gardens contain over 8,000 different plant species, attracting people of all ages and backgrounds, including the city's Undergraduates, who carry out some of their studies of biological sciences and plant biology.
	members.virtualtourist.com /m/81e43/4b08a/4/?o=2 (1570 words)

	Oxford University Gazette, 30 January 2003: Notices (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The Council of Ampleforth Abbey, with the approval of the Council of the University, has appointed THE REVD G.F.L. CHAMBERLAIN, MA, University College, as Master of St Benet's Hall with effect from 1 September 2004.
		Established over two sites, the University of Oxford Botanic Garden and Harcourt Arboretum are world renowned for their collections and in the advancement of learning.
		The Botanic Garden, situated at the east end of the High Street opposite Magdalen College, was founded in 1621 and is the oldest botanic garden in Britain.
	www.ox.ac.uk /gazette/2002-3/weekly/300103/notc.htm (599 words)

	River Thames Stock Photo Image Library: Buy photographs of Oxford 1
		They depict University of Oxford college buildings, Alice's Shop, Wren's Sheldonian Theatre, punts and people punting, rowing skiffs and students rowing, the University of Oxford Botanic Garden, street scenes, pub signs, the University church and pretty cottages along the River Thames.
		There are miscellaneous images of the University of Oxford Botanic Garden, its entry gate (with magnolia in bloom) and a view of Magdalene's Tower through the glass roof of its orchid house.
		Finally, there are many pictures here of sport and leisure activities on the River Thames: college rowers before a pretty hump-backed bridge (singles, doubles, cox and eight); people punting (and being punted) on the river; a pattern of dozens of punts tied up at a dock; row boats; and long punt-like peddle boats.
	www.jimbatty.com /thames/oxford_1.html (295 words)

	Oxford (Kidlington) Airport EGTK/OXF - Local Guide to Oxfordshire & The Cotswolds
		Oxford Airport is very well served by bus, train and road-based services and is located equidistant between Birmingham, the industrial heart of southern UK and London, the capital.
		This is the oldest botanic garden in the country and has more diversity than a tropical rainforest.
		Malmaison Oxford - HM Prison Oxford is now taking in guests in the guise of the stunning new addition to the Malmaison chain.
	www.oxfordairport.co.uk /localguide.htm (877 words)

	publicintro1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Our five study mornings will follow the gardening year at the University of Oxford Botanic Garden.
		The courses will be taught by members of the Garden Staff.
		Participants may attend just one course or the series.
	www.botanic-garden.ox.ac.uk /Education/publicintro1.html (36 words)

	Leonardo In Oxford: A Da Vinci Trail Around The University Museums - 24 Hour Museum - official guide to UK museums, ...
		For those who don’t fancy the idea of a museum visit, just down the road from Christ Church are the Botanic Gardens and Magdalen College.
		The Botanic Gardens, the oldest in Britain, are home to hothouses, walled gardens, and water gardens, to name but a few.
		The Garden will offer activities for all - for younger visitors there will be a trail on which they will find examples of plants studied and drawn by Leonardo.
	www.24hourmuseum.org.uk /trlout_gfx_en/TRA39445.html (1070 words)

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