Taxonomy and Arboretum Design
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a winding pathway so that visitors encountered specimens in a taxonomic sequence. Growing related plants together, in effect, organizes a collection into a living encyclopedia, allowing for comparison of the characteristics of species within a genus or genera within a family. By planting related taxa in an evolutionary progression, the more complicated sequential taxonomic arrangement reveals the ancestral affinities of modern floras. Good examples of this display theme are the "order beds" of herbaceous plants at gardens like Kew and Cambridge, which have long provided botany students with a compact synopsis of the plant kingdom arranged in taxonomic sequence. Despite the educational advantages, there
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