Cluj Botanical Garden - The Botanical Garden publishes the following magazines: ?Contributions to Botany?, the publication which promotes the scientific reports made by the specialists in botany from Cluj, ?The Seed Catalogue?, based on which the institute settles seed exchanges with almost 500 other similar institutions from 82 countries and ?Flora Romaniae Exsicca?, which facilitates the exchanges of herbariums between several botanical institutes throughout the world. The Botanical Garden supports the higher education in this field. It stands for a laboratory where specialists have the best opportunity to study the life of plants, and to discover means of protecting the rare plants and the natural ecosystems, of preserving the vegetal germ plasma. It also accomplishes the noble mission of educating the people in the spirit of respect and love for nature.