The Blossoming Botanical Gardens of The Chinese Academy of Science

This picture album illustrates the development of the 12 botanical gardens of CAS, namely, the Beijing botanical garden, the Nanjing botanical garden , Sun Yat Sen, the South China botanical garden, the Xishuangbanna Tropical botanical garden, the Kunming botanical garden, the Wuhan botanical garden, the Lushan botanical garden, the Guilin botanical garden, the Dinghushan Arboretum, the Turpan Eremophytes botanical garden, the Shenyang Arboretum and West China Subalpine, their scientific research programs, garden landscapes, their efforts in public education of plant sciences, international cooperation and academic exchange activities, through concise text and plenty of selected photographs, with their contribution to human existence and development highlighted.