PlantNetwork Newsletter No.3 February 1996

PlantNetwork publishes a regular newsletter containing news and information from botanic gardens, arboreta and holders of other documented plant collections in Britain and Ireland. This newsletter is only available to members of PlantNetwork. Institutional members receive several copies of the Newsletter for circulation amongst their staff.

• From the Chairman of the Working Party
• PlantNet First General Meeting
• Anniversaries
• The Botanical Gardens, Sheffield
• Glasgow Botanic Gardens
• People, Honours & Appointments
• From the National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin
• Economic Botany Museum at Kew to be Restored
• Is there a Berberis without spines?
• The Fitzroya Project – can you help?
• National Collections of the Royal Horticultural Society
• NCCPG – the story so far
• Chilean Rainforest at the Younger Botanic Garden
• Two Projects at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh
• Herbarium and Library extension at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh
• Botanical Horticulture – a dying art?
• HND Horticulture with Plantsmanship
• A new centre for research and environmental education at the Chelsea Physic Garden
• Japanese Gateway at Kew
• Conference Reports
• Working with Friends and Volunteers
• Interpretation in Botanic Gardens
• Reaching Out – Botanic Garden Conservation into the 21st Century - 4th International Botanic Gardens Conservation Congress
• Around the World
• Help to reconstruct the Sarajevo Botanic Garden
• Plants of South Africa
• New Publications
• Short-term Fellowships in Taxonomy at the University of Glasgow
• Diary