The Bogor botanic garden was a big research garden that was located on the heart of the Bogor City, Indonesia. The width reached 80 hectare and had 15,000 kinds and plants of the tree collection.
At this time the Bogor Botanic Garden busy was visited as the tourist attraction, especially Saturday and on Sunday. Around the Bogor Botanic Garden spread the scientific centres that is the Bogoriense Herbarium, the Zoology Museum, and Bogor Agricultural Institute – IPB.
The Bogor botanic garden at first am a part of ‘samida’ (the artificial forest or the artificial garden) that at least was to the government of Sri Baduga Maharaja (Prabu Siliwangi, 1474-1513) from the Pajajaran Kingdom, as being written in the slate inscription. The artificial forest is aimed for the need to maintain conservation of the environment as the place maintain rare wood seeds. Nearby samida that is made also samida that is similar in the Cianjur border with Bogor (the Ciung Wanara Forest).
At the beginning of the 1800 ‘s the Governor-general Thomas Stamford Raffles, that lives in the Bogor Palace and has the big interest in botany, is interested developing the page of the Bogor Palace into a pretty garden. With help of the botany experts, W. Kent, who are constructive Londons Kew Garden, Raffles conjures up the page of the palace to the stylish English garden classic.
This early of the beginning of the Bogor Botanic Garden in the form of him now.
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