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Statue of Arthur Phillip in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney
The family contains over 330 genera and about 3, 700 species, according to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
The Governor's office and official residence is Government House next to the Royal Botanic Gardens and surrounded by Kings Domain in Melbourne.
The house and lands of the poet Thomas Tickell were sold in 1790 to the Irish Parliament and given to the Royal Dublin Society for them to establish Ireland's first Botanic Gardens.
" The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew " and the brand name " Kew " are also used as umbrella terms for the institution that runs both the gardens at Kew and Wakehurst Place gardens in Sussex.
The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, is an internationally important botanical research and education institution with 700 staff and an income of for the year ended, as well as a visitor attraction receiving almost visits in that year.
The director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, is responsible for the world's largest collection of living plants.
In November 2010, it was announced that Dr Tim Entwisle, Executive Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney, was to become Director of Conservation, Living Collections & Estates.
The Order Beds were devised in the late 1860s by Sir Joseph Hooker, then director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, so that botany students could learn to recognise plants and experience at first hand the diversity of the plant kingdom.
* Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Official website
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During much of this time Banks was an informal adviser to King George III on the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, a position that was formalised in 1797.
The competition garden was the entry of Melbourne's Royal Botanic Gardens.
Its Australian native-themed design was based on the metaphorical journey of water through the continent based on the award-winning Australian Garden at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Cranbourne.
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* Diatom page, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
Statues of Edward can be found throughout the former empire, such as those in Waterloo Place, London ; Centenary Square, Birmingham ; Union Street, Aberdeen ; Queen's Park, Toronto ; North Terrace, Adelaide ; Franklin Square, Hobart ; Queen Victoria Gardens, Melbourne ; Phillips Square, Montreal and outside the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney.
He also hosted the Australian Conservation Foundation ’ s Spirituality and Sustainability Forum with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and is an ambassador and former board member of the Royal Botanic Gardens Foundation, Sydney.
The Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew in London also contains a large specimen.
The tree, growing in Reelig Glen by Inverness is called Dughall Mor and stands at 64 m. It was measured in 2005 by Tony Kirkham and Jon Hammerton from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, the late Jim Paterson from The Tree Register and David Jardine of the Forestry Commission.

Royal and Gardens
The Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens is a popular recreation area a short distance from the City centre.
The annual Tulip Festival at the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens is a popular Spring celebration in the City.
One of the most famous sights is the Royal Gardens of Herrenhausen:
Other places of interest include Kabul City Center, which is Kabul's first shopping mall, the shops around Flower Street and Chicken Street, Wazir Akbar Khan district, Kabul Golf Club, Kabul Zoo, Abdul Rahman Mosque, Shah-Do Shamshira and other famous mosques, the National Gallery of Afghanistan, the National Archives of Afghanistan, Afghan Royal Family Mausoleum, the OMAR Mine Museum, Bibi Mahro Hill, Kabul Cemetery, and Paghman Gardens.
* Colvin, Howard M. ( 1986 ) " Royal Gardens in Medieval England ," in MacDougal ( ed ) 1986.
* Gardens of the Royal Hospital

Royal and Kew
" The Plant List " is a collaboration between the Missouri Botanical Garden and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, England.
Wedgwood was chairman ; also present were William Townsend Aiton ( successor to his father, William Aiton, as Superintendent of Kew Gardens ), Sir Joseph Banks ( President of the Royal Society ), James Dickson ( a nurseryman ), William Forsyth ( Superintendent of the gardens of St. James's Palace and Kensington Palace ), Charles Francis Greville ( a Lord of the Admiralty ) and Richard Anthony Salisbury, who was to become the Secretary of the new society.
* Brian Mathew, Flowering Bulbs for the Garden, Collingridge / Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 1987.
Sir John Banks, Director of the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, also sent her roses.
* Edward James Salisbury ( 1886 – 1978 ), director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew from 1943 to 1956 ; cousin of Frank O. Salisbury
With the rapid rise of European imperialism in the late 18th century botanic gardens were established in the tropics and economic botany became a focus with the hub at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, near London.

Royal and usually
The Latin word basilica ( derived from Greek, Basiliké Stoà, Royal Stoa ), was originally used to describe a Roman public building ( as in Greece, mainly a tribunal ), usually located in the forum of a Roman town.
Frigates did not carry any guns ( or have any gunports ) on their lower decks ; confusingly, the lower deck was often referred to as the " gun deck " in the Royal Navy ( in the US Navy, it was usually called the " berth deck "), even for frigates, where it did not carry any guns or have gunports.
Luftwaffe is also the generic term in German speaking countries for any national military aviation service, and the names of air forces in other countries are usually translated into German as " Luftwaffe " ( e. g. Royal Air Force is often translated as britische Luftwaffe ).
Although in the United Kingdom there is no strict legal or formal definition of who is or is not a member of the Royal Family, and different lists will include different people, those carrying the style Her or His Majesty ( HM ), or Her or His Royal Highness ( HRH ) are always considered members, which usually results in the application of the term to the monarch, the consort of the monarch, the widowed consorts of previous monarchs, the children of the monarch and previous monarchs, the male-line grandchildren of the monarch and previous monarchs, and the spouses and the widows of a monarch's and previous monarch's sons and male-line grandsons.
At the same time, Royal Blue, another name once given to tints produced from lapis lazuli, has evolved to signify a much lighter and brighter color, and is usually mixed from Phthalo Blue and titanium dioxide, or from inexpensive synthetic blue dyes.
Although there is some disagreement among historians, credit for coining the term is usually given to Lt. A. D. Conningham of the British Royal Navy in 1915.
Catholic schools are usually light blue, Wesleyan ( Royal Blue ), Anglican ( Navy Blue ) and LDS Schools ( Green ).
The Thimphu Tsechu, held for four days is usually attended by the Royal family and the Chief Abbot of Bhutan and other government officials.
Ceremonies are held at local war memorials, usually organized by local branches of the Royal British Legion, an association for ex-servicemen.
Other members of the Royal Family usually watch the service from the balcony of the Foreign Office.
The nine largest institutions of the federal university, usually termed the colleges, are Birkbeck, Goldsmiths, King's College London, the London Business School, Queen Mary, Royal Holloway, the School of Oriental and African Studies, London School of Economics and Political Science and University College London ( UCL ).
( Forest is usually used in the British Isles only for more extensive wooded areas, again, regardless of density – and also including Royal forests, which may not be wooded at all ).
John usually resides with the Penguins but is more of a free agent, tending to appear in roles The Penguin is unsuitable for, e. g. a benefit fraud investigator or tabloid plant amongst the Royal Family.
* a non-commissioned officer usually with the rank of staff sergeant or Warrant Officer Class 1 in the Royal Corps of Signals in the British Army, an appointment achieved upon completion of a 14-month technical course.
The " New Royal Horticultural Society Dictionary of Gardening " ( 1999 ) points out that among the various kinds of organisations now known as botanical gardens there are many public gardens with little scientific activity, and it cites a more abbreviated definition that was published by the World Wildlife Fund and IUCN when launching the ’’ Botanic Gardens Conservation Strategy ’’ in 1989: " A botanic garden is a garden containing scientifically ordered and maintained collections of plants, usually documented and labelled, and open to the public for the purposes of recreation, education and research.
In the Royal Navy the rank of vice-admiral should be distinguished from the office of " Vice-Admiral of the United Kingdom ", which is an Admiralty position usually held by a retired " full " admiral, and that of " Vice-Admiral of the Coast ", a now obsolete office dealing with naval administration in each of the maritime counties.
It is usually known as the Royal Society of Arts for brevity ( and on the building's frieze The Royal Society of Arts — see photograph ).
At Tonbridge and Royal Tunbridge Wells, England, souvenir " Tunbridge wares "— small boxes and the like — made from the mid-18th century onwards, were veneered with panels of minute wood mosaics, usually geometric, but which could include complicated subjects like landscapes.
and the women visiting Manchester on Whit-Saturday, thronging the markets, the Royal Exchange and the Infirmary Esplanade, and other public places: And gazing in at the shop windows, whence this day is usually called ' Gaping Sunday '.
Transport to Texel is usually by ferry ( Royal TESO ), from Den Helder, or by air via Texel International Airport.
By the Second World War, only senior officers of the Army and Royal Air Force were officially assigned their own batmen, with junior officers usually having the services of one batman between several officers.
Mechanised units usually have an attached light aid detachment ( LAD ) of the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers ( REME ) to perform field repairs on vehicles and equipment.

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