In 1900, he moved to Asheville, North Carolina, where he worked on the large Biltmore Herbarium while compiling his beloved " Economic Botany of Alabama ", about weeds, medicinal-, poisonous-and commercial-plants.
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Under his stewardship the Conservatory was reborn, the Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden was planned, a new Children's Garden was dedicated, and the Botanical Garden set up its Institute of Economic Botany.
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His ever-popular undergraduate course on economic botany was noted for his inebriants, blowpipe demonstrations, and hands-on labs ( using plant sources of grain, paper, caffeine, dyes, medicines, and tropical fruits ).
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Reviewing volume 7 in " Economic Botany ", Neil A . Harriman wrote that the entire flora was " lavishly produced, with a great many line drawings to aid in identification ".
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The Oakes Ames Collection of Economic Botany, the Paleobotanical Collection ( including the Pollen Collection ), and the Margaret Towle Collection of Archaeological Plant Remains are housed in the Botanical Museum building.
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It was originally called the " Museum of Vegetable Products " and was predominantly focused on an interdisciplinary study of useful plants ( i . e . economic botany and horticulture ).
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Mangelsdorf was in 1951 the president of the American Society of Naturalists, in 1955 the president of the Genetics Society of America, and in 1962 the president of the Society for Economic Botany.
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Apart from his work with horticulture and economic botany, he was responsible in the introduction of many ornamental plants and flowering trees and was involved in the choice of avenue trees for Bangalore.
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Under his direction the gardens expanded from 10 to 75 acres ( 4 to 30 Ha ), with an arboretum of, many new glass-houses were erected, and a museum of economic botany was established.
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Sehgal is a Trustee Emeritus of the Missouri Botanical Garden in St . Louis, having helped to establish the William L . Brown Center of Economic Botany at the Missouri Botanical Garden in 2001.
