How can a botanical garden generate income to the university?
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Many of the functions of botanical gardens have already been discussed in the sections above, which emphasise the scientific underpinning of botanical gardens with their focus on research, education and conservation. However, as multifaceted organisations, all sites have their own special interests. In a remarkable paper on the role of botanical gardens, Ferdinand Mueller (1825–1896), the director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne (1852–1873), stated, "in all cases the objects [of a botanical garden] must be mainly scientific and predominantly instructive". He then detailed many of the objectives being pursued by the world's botanical gardens in the middle of the 19th century, when European gardens were at their height. Many of these are listed below to give a sense of the scope of botanical gardens' activities at that time, and the ways in which they differed from parks or what he called "public pleasure gardens":[64]
availability of plants for scientific research
display of plant diversity in form and use
display of plants of particular regions (including local)
plants sometimes grown within their particular families
plants grown for their seed or rarity
major timber (American English: lumber) trees
plants of economic significance
glasshouse plants of different climates
all plants accurately labelled
records kept of plants and their performance
catalogues of holdings published periodically
research facilities utilising the living collections
studies in plant taxonomy
examples of different vegetation types
student education
a herbarium
selection and introduction of ornamental and other plants to commerce
studies of plant chemistry (phytochemistry)
report on the effects of plants on livestock
at least one collector maintained doing