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botanical garden

noun

a garden for the exhibition and scientific study of collected, growing plants, usually in association with greenhouses, herbariums, laboratories, etc.

First recorded in 1775–85

We saw the botanical garden so much praised by Humboldt; but it is in sad disorder, having been for some time entirely neglected.

The botanical garden and hot-house are on a large scale, and exhibit a favorable specimen of the present state of horticulture.

This was pointed out to us by a labourer as the spot at which the Emperor alights and reposes when he visits the Botanical Garden.

There is also annexed to the Museum a small botanical garden.

Outside of his botanical garden an American species of Evening Primrose had run wild.

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