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The lovely botanical work depicting bananas and the Musa plant within the archive show how much they differ from what we expect a banana to appear to be. Made up principally of seeds, the flesh would have been onerous and so we can’t imagine eating them was a lot enjoyable for Darwin. The follies were not designed to last though some have, like the Ruined Arch.

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This month we had the pleasure and the privilege of visiting the archives on the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew. (See our criteria for itemizing serial archives.) This web page has no affiliation with the serial or its publisher. The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh has established a Florilegium to produce a visual document of its dwelling collection and to reflect its scientific and horticultural interests.

Founded in 1804 to encourage the science, art and apply of horticulture in all its branches. It is now the world’s leading horticultural organisation, with extremely energetic science and educational departments based at RHS Garden, Wisley. The Society is answerable for organising a selection of exhibits, of which the Chelsea Flower Show is probably the most well-known. Holds letters, diaries, files and area notebooks of these botanists and horticulturists concerned within the creation of Kew’s plant collection, as properly as the registered information of the backyard itself. Photographic prints of naturalist Charles Darwin whose theory of evolution by natural choice became the muse of recent science. We additionally got to see the unique plans and elevations for the Temperate House.

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