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Ankit S, Reviewer
"The very first botanic gardens we know of were trophy gardens, where rulers in the ancient world amassed exotic plants as spoils of conquest and symbols of their power. And every significant culture appears to have created gardens of medicinal plants, whether in ancient India and China, Aztec Mesoamerica or medieval European Christendom."
This is a book rich in collation on major botanic gardens from all over the world. Ambra Edwards is garden-writer. Her collation of Botanic gardens and their habitats' plants is worth reading. However, she seems to be very much involved in telling about how its only Dutch East India Company that did everything in this field by spreading varieties of plant species over the world which seems more like sycophancy than fact.
She must learn more on medicinal plants' abodes in the natural vegetation of Himalayas in India from where whole Ayurveda evolved & driven all over earth. Still many do not know all the usage of each plants out their and in varied manners, as most prominent Ayurveda practicing scientists do. Even Plastic surgery was firstly known to Indians only from the times of "Sushruta (1000–800 BC)" who was known as the "Father of Plastic Surgery" for his epitome work in nasal reconstruction, which is still in use in different kind of versions today. His work is documented in his hand written work 'Sushruta Samhita', the etiology of more than 1,100 diseases and the use of thousands of medicinal plants. Was that really possible then for him to no t have proper garden with all such plants?
For Botanical garden theory I found facts so fascinating on the preservation and keep holds of variety of species, but on India knew very less on the subject gave me statistics which are factually wrong. This is because our old scriptures were stating different documented records.
I really like the preservation techniques specially "cryo-storage, in which plant tissues or seeds are plunged into vats of liquid nitrogen at temperatures as low as −196°C (−320°F). Under these conditions, plant tissue ages very slowly and can be kept in storage almost indefinitely. This has proved extremely successful for storing rainforest species, around half of which cannot survive being dried."
Overall, this is a good study I got on the topic and would appreciate author's efforts on the subject.
This is a book rich in collation on major botanic gardens from all over the world. Ambra Edwards is garden-writer. Her collation of Botanic gardens and their habitats' plants is worth reading. However, she seems to be very much involved in telling about how its only Dutch East India Company that did everything in this field by spreading varieties of plant species over the world which seems more like sycophancy than fact.
She must learn more on medicinal plants' abodes in the natural vegetation of Himalayas in India from where whole Ayurveda evolved & driven all over earth. Still many do not know all the usage of each plants out their and in varied manners, as most prominent Ayurveda practicing scientists do. Even Plastic surgery was firstly known to Indians only from the times of "Sushruta (1000–800 BC)" who was known as the "Father of Plastic Surgery" for his epitome work in nasal reconstruction, which is still in use in different kind of versions today. His work is documented in his hand written work 'Sushruta Samhita', the etiology of more than 1,100 diseases and the use of thousands of medicinal plants. Was that really possible then for him to no t have proper garden with all such plants?
For Botanical garden theory I found facts so fascinating on the preservation and keep holds of variety of species, but on India knew very less on the subject gave me statistics which are factually wrong. This is because our old scriptures were stating different documented records.
I really like the preservation techniques specially "cryo-storage, in which plant tissues or seeds are plunged into vats of liquid nitrogen at temperatures as low as −196°C (−320°F). Under these conditions, plant tissue ages very slowly and can be kept in storage almost indefinitely. This has proved extremely successful for storing rainforest species, around half of which cannot survive being dried."
Overall, this is a good study I got on the topic and would appreciate author's efforts on the subject.
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