Official guide to the Kew museums. A handbook to the museums of economic botany of the Royal Gardens, Kew.

Mode of access: Internet.

The Gallery of Marianne North's paintings of plants and their homes, Royal Gardens, Kew. Descriptive catalogue.

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Hortus kewensis; or, A catalogue of the plants cultivated in the Royal botanic garden at Kew.

"Books quoted": v. 1, p. [xv]-xl.

Bulletin of miscellaneous information / Trinidad, Royal Botanic Gardens.

2, 1895-1896

Annals of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Peradeniya.

4, 1907-10

Circulars and agricultural journal of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Ceylon ...

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Circulars and agricultural journal of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Ceylon

Mode of access: Internet.

An epitome of the second edition of Hortus Kewensis : for the use of practical gardeners; to which is added, A selection of esculent vegetables and fruits cultivated in the Royal gardens at Kew /

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Kew gardens,

Preface.--Royal residences.--Kew in favour.--The story of the gardens.--The village: in and about it.--Visiting the gardens.

Kew bulletin.

Vols. for 1925- contain Review of the work of the Royal Botanic Gardens for the period 1924.

Hortus Kewensis : Sistens herbas exoticas, indigenasque rariores, in area botanica, Hortorum Augustissimae Principissae Cambriae Dotissae, apud Kew, in comitatu Surreiano, cultas; methodo florali nova dispositas /

A re-issue of the 1st ed. of 1768, cf. Hunt 598.

Kew bulletin additional series.

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Seed persistence in the field may be predicted by laboratory-controlled aging

Weed management is complicated by the presence of soil seed banks. The complexity of soil-seed interactions means that seed persistence in the field is often difficult to measure, let alone predict. Field trials, although accurate in their context, are time-consuming and expensive to conduct for individual species. Some ex situ techniques for estimating seed life expectancy have been proposed, but these fail to simulate the environmental complexity of the field. Also, it has been questioned whether techniques such as the controlled aging test (CAT) are useful indicators of field persistence. This study aimed to test the validity of the standard CAT (seed aging at 45 C and 60% relative humidity) in use at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, U.K., for predicting field seed-persistence. Comparison of seed persistence and CAT data for 27 northwest European species suggested a significant positive correlation of 0.31. Subsequently, 13 species of emerging and common weeds of Queensland were assessed for their seed longevity using the CAT. The seed longevity data of these species in the CAT were linked with field seed-persistence data according to three broad seed-persistence categories: <1 yr, 1 to 3 yr, and >3 yr. We discuss the scope for using the CAT as a tool for rapid assignment of species to these categories. There is a need for further studies that compare predictions of seed persistence based on the CAT with seed persistence in the field for a larger range of species and environments.

Contribution to the knowlegde of Galician xenoflora (NW Iberian Peninsula, Spain).

Information on 12 exotic plants of diverse interest for the Galician flora are presented. All of them were collected in Ribeira council (SW of the A Coruña province). The total includes 8 novelties at a regional level (Aeonium haworthii, Aloe mitriformis, Brugmansia × candida, Nephrolepis cordifolia, Osteospermum ecklonis, Pelargonium capitatum, Sedum mexicanum, Sparaxis tricolor), and 2 provincial novelties. In addition, information on two taxa hardly mentioned in the literature on Galician vascular flora is also included. All the cited specimens are deposited at the SANT Herbarium.