Q. What is the basic Role of Botanic Garden?

A botanic garden makes us to simply enjoy the beauty and variety of nature. The pleasure of admiring turns us into good naturalists. We can also appreciate the beauty of foliage and flowers. The role of botanic gardens is to:

• cultivate and maintain plants of interest on scientific basis,

• show vegetation of the world on geographical characteristics i.e. Himalayan fiora, Alpine flora,

• maintain plants which are in danger of extinction and save species, plan germ plasm collection,

• serve as research centres in various fields,

• facilitate taxonomic studies by preserved and live plants,

• promote educational programmes and research in experimental botany and ornamental horticulture,

• exchange of materials - live, dried and "Index Semidum" i.e. list of seeds offered for exchange.