The botanic gardens form a pleasant and favourite place of resort.
Its botanic collection contains the famous Vienna herbarium, while to the university is attached a fine botanical garden.
Herbaria are also associated with the more important botanic gardens and museums in other countries.
Some Baganda chiefs have started cotton, rubber and cocoa plantations, the botanic department assisting in this enterprise.
The Botanic Garden (the second part of which - The Loves of the Plants - was published anonymously in 1789, and the whole of which appeared in 1791) is a long poem in the decasyllabic rhymed couplet.