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review. If, in any essential, they are unrealized, this has 

 resulted from necessity rather than forgetfulness or disregard; 

 but, through causes beyond the control of the Board or 

 Director, the possibiUty of detailed realization still remains 

 greatly limited. Apart from the maintenance of a public 

 museum as a part of the Garden, no general feature of the plan 

 .has actually failed of development in a degree proportionate to 

 the financial possibilities of the Board; and, small as individual 

 accomphshments have been, because of the hmited means 

 that could be bent to them, a continued and continuing 

 advance is observable in all. 



Recapitulated briefly, in the language used ten years ago, 

 the direct objects of the founder of the Garden are: the main- 

 tenance of a garden easily accessible to the public excei:)ting 

 on Sundays and holidays, for the cultivation, propagation and 

 study of plants; the exchange of material; the equipment, 

 maintenance and utilization of a museum, herbarium and 

 library; the gathering about the institution of a corps of in- 

 structors and investigators, with suitable laboratory and 

 instrumental equipment; the provision for public lectures 

 from time to time; the prosecution of research in botany in 

 the broadest sense, including vegetable physiology, the dis- 

 eases and injuries of plants, and horticulture and other 

 branches of science closely connected with these; and the 

 instruction and training of gardeners. Correlated with these 

 purposes is that of training botanists, entrusted to the School 

 of Botany, in the closest possible affiliation with the Garden. 



GARDENING. 



Under the administration of the Trustees, ever since the 

 task fell to them, the Garden has been kept open to the public 

 in the way designated by its founder, and, though never 

 above criticism, has been maintained with improving taste 

 and attractiveness, and with an increasing variety of plants 

 under cultivation. 



The limitation of decorative gardening to an area fixed at 

 the time when the Trustees assumed charge of the establish- 

 ment, and susceptible of enlargement only by provisional 



