print email comment close Chelsea Physic Garden URL: http://www.chelseaphysicgarden.co.uk/ Description: "Chelsea Physic Garden was founded by the Society of Apothecaries in 1673 in order to promote the study of botany in relation to medicine, then known as the 'physic' or healing arts." The site includes a brief history of this London garden as well as a description of its herb, medicinal, and other plant collections and weather data back to 2000. Includes photographs. Extra Keywords botanical Library of Congress Subject Headings: Gardens -- England -- London Medicinal plants LII Database Information: Record 11740 created by Maria Brandt on 09/29/2003 Last modification on 09/30/2003 Published: 09/29/2003   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/11740