The history of two botanic gardens - 45 years of the National Botanic Garden of Latvia and 40 years of the Tallinn Botanic Garden in Estonia
2002
Vishnevska, L. (National Botanic Garden of Latvia, Salaspils (Latvia)) | Sander, H. (Estonian Agricultural Univ., Tartu (Estonia). Forest Research Inst.)
In Europe, most of the older botanic gardens have been established under universities, which had the required scientific potential and needed a research base. Similarly, the first botanic gardens in Estonia and its neighboring territories were connected with universities: the botanic gardens established in Turku in 1670, in Tartu in 1803, in Helsinki in 1830, in Riga and Vilnius in 1922, and in Kaunas in 1923 were institutions subordinated to the local universities. A different case was the establishment of the National Botanic Garden in Salaspils, Latvia, and the Tallinn Botanic Garden in Tallinn, Estonia. These were founded in 1956 and 1961 under the Academy of Sciences of the Latvian SSR and the Academy of Sciences of the Estonian SSR, respectively, and developed into scientific institutes
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