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The mission of the St. George Village Botanical Garden Library is to provide leadership in the collection, conservation, organization and dissemination of historical and research sources with the purpose of serving the historical, horticultural and botanical information needs of the St. George Village Botanical Garden membership, staff and, when appropriate, independent researchers.

The St. George Village Botanical Garden is located on St. Croix in the United States Virgin Islands. It is 16 acre garden situated among the buildings and ruins of an 18th and 19th century sugar cane plantation. This site overlaps an Amerindian settlement which dates back to c.100 A.D.

The Garden’s botanical collections feature over 1,000 varieties of plants that demonstrate the horticultural potential for the U.S. Virgin Islands and emphasize the cultural and historical value of plants as a source of food, medicine, fiber, color dyes, and building material in the Caribbean.