Botanical garden of Bogor

The botanical garden of Bogor , in Indonésien Kebun Striped Bogor , is in the town of Bogor to Java.

The garden was founded in 1817 (Bogor was called then Buitenzorg , which wants to say " without soucis" in Dutch) by the government of the the Indies Dutchwomen, which wished to join together the plants that the Javaneses and natives of the other areas of their colony used in their domestic use or like drug, and to allow to study them in order to use them with business ends.

The garden became a center of promotion of agriculture and horticulture in Indonesia.

History

The botanical garden was on the grounds in the neighborhoods of the palate of the governor of Java, Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles (1781-1826). During its stay with Buitenzorg it wished to leave around the palate a garden of English style. It went even until buying plants of the garden of Kew, in London. Moreover it set up a monument with the memory of his wife, Lady Olivia Marianne, who died in 1814. Moreover this last can still be seen in the garden.

The founder of the “Plantentuin Lands” (Space of the planted gardens), of the name which Dutch had given him, was Casper Georg Carl Reinwardt German who had initially travelled in Holland to study the natural science and to specialize in botany and chemistry. In 1817, Reinwardt which was then 44 years old was named director of the agricultural questions about Java and the surrounding islands. May 18th, 1817, 47 hectares of the grounds which surrounded the palate of the governor were converted into botanical garden and Reinwardt was named first director of Buitenzorg, of 1817 to 1822. During this period 900 new plantations were carried out in the garden.

In 1823 Carl Ludwig Blume which was director of 1822 with 1826 published the first catalog of plants, containing 914 species. One of facts more important of this garden occurred when in 1826 arrived of the Japan sent Philipp Franz von Siebold (doctor and botanist which worked for the Compagnie Dutchwoman of the Eastern Indies with Dejima), some seedlings of Théier, without Japanese not being informed by it whereas its trade was controlled in a very strict way by this country. The success of the propagation and the culture was such as in 1833, Java lodged more than one half million of trees with the.

In 1830 was named Johannes Elías Teysmann , as a preserving director of Buitenzorg . It occupied this station more than 50 years, and with the assistance of its assistant “Justus Karl Hasskarl” it developed and organized the garden in taxinomic families. Hasskarl also proposed to him to build a library, which was concretized in 1842 with the opening of “Bibliotheca Bogoriensis”, and the construction of a building for “Herbarium Bogoriense”, which was open in 1844.

In 1844 it wrote the second catalog of plants, in which were listed more than 2800 species. During many years Teysmann brought back thousands of plants to Bogor of its voyages in the archipelago. The tree of fire, Delonix regia, which currently meets in all the Indonesia was introduced in 1848 by Teysmann of Singapore.

In 1848, the garden accepted four seeds of palm tree oilseeds coming from the garden Hortus Botanicus (Amsterdam) which had been seen equipped with two palm trees out of pots brought to Amsterdam by the Company of the Indies of the Mauritius, an island of the Indian Ocean, which had produced seeds for six years, and which were propagated in all the South-East Asia. These seeds were the first introduced in Indonesia, from there, the culture of the palm tree oilseeds extended to all the archipelago, making palm an economic good of first importance, by providing a source of food and fibers vegetable being able to constitute cords or plaits.

Directors of the garden

Panoramic sights

Installations

The house of the orchises

This building was increased in 1977 thanks to the financial aid of the woman of president “Ibu Siti Hartinah Soeharto”. In the current collection one finds the specimens of the collections former to 1985, which includes/understands only little of representing orchises autochtones islands indonésiennes. From 2006 of the missions of collection of wild specimens were organized for all the islands, which increased the collection considerably and makes give to this one a priceless value. The public can visit it besides only provided with a special permit.

Pusat Penelitian daN Pengembangan Biologi

In the years 1980, Lembaga Biologi Nasional or LBN (National institute of Biology) reorganized. Pusat Penelitian daN Pengembangan Biologi (Research center and of Development in Biology) and the garden of the same name then separated. In 1990, one could read “Soetikno Wirjoatmodjo” with the pediment of the center and “Suhirman” on that of the garden.

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