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Many residents of Calcutta and visitors and tourists to this city want to know something about the plants whose beautiful flowers, flower-heads, graceful appearance or welcome fragrance pleases and charms them. There is no illustrated book to fill this need. This work is an humble attempt to provide a handy manual for identification and appreciation of the ornamental trees and shrubs of the city. It surely does not include all the flowering plants of Calcutta; ...
Botanic gardens, public gardens, parks and other greeneries form an effective network for conservation of plants of utility and aesthetic value besides their role in protecting ecological balance preventing environmental degradation and maintaining a pollution free pure natural atmosphere. The development of such conservation centres in India has been under active consideration of both central and state governments. Botanic gardens, though form an integral part ...
The present venture is the publication of live collections of plants or plants under cultivation in different botanic gardens and arboreta. This will serve as ready reference of the stock of plants maintained by the botanic gardens, experimental gardens and arboreta, the rare, endangered, threatened and endemic plants in particular. In case of any necessity either for conservation, utilization and identification one can easily find out in which garden(s) those ...