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A tour of the garden at the SLBI

Founded in 1910 in Tulse Hill, South London, the SLBI cares for an herbarium of both foreign and British plants. It has a beautiful botanical garden and an extensive library of botanical literature.

Many of the plants grown in the garden are of medicinal interest. They were used by apothecaries to cure different ills in the past. Others contain chemicals that were used for dyeing cloth or for food preparation.

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Uploaded on July 23, 2016
Taken on July 21, 2016