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and embraces not more than ten acres of land, of which one-half 
is given toarboretum. The greenhousesare large but oid. There 
is a very extensive herbarium and library. The systematic. beds 
are arranged as quadrants of a circle, separated by concentric and 
radial paths. Special areas are devoted to ornamental and eco- 
nomic plants. Owing to the restricted size of the area availablea 
very dense grouping of plants is necessitated. The research work 
accomplished here has been mainly taxonomic. The Botanical 
Society of Belgium has its headquarters at the garden. 
10. The Imperial Botanical Garden at St. Petersburg is in close 
affiliation with the Academy of Sciences and the University. 
There is here a famous herbarium, a large botanical library and 
museum, and commodious and well-stocked greenhouses. The 
garden publishes « Acta,” and many researches prosecuted there 
are printed in the Bulletin and Memoirs of the Imperial Academy. 
11. The Royal Botanic Garden of Trinidad, situated at Port 
of Spain, was established in 1818, and now occupies about sixty- 
three acres, with some outlying plantations. There is a vast col- 
lection of tropical plants in cultivation, an extensive botanical 
library and herbarium and a small laboratory. The garden pub- 
lishes “ Annual Reports” and « Bulletin,” dealing especially with 
topics of economic application. ¢ 
12. The Botanical Department of Jamaica, West Indies, oper- 
ates extensive gardens at Kingston, smaller ones at Castleton, and 
the several large Cinchona plantations. The scientific collections 
and library are valuable. The department publishes ‘ Annual 
Reports ” and “ Bulletin,” especially devoted to economic botany. 
13. McGill University, at Montreal, Quebec, carries on a small 
botanical garden in connection with its laboratories. The Mon- 
treal Botanic Garden, begun in 1885, on about 75 acres of ground 
in Mount Royal Park, was soon abandoned, owing to political 
complications. 
14. Among other foreign gardens of which mention must be 
made, and of which a description would be interesting if our time 
allowed, are those at Munich, Wiirzburg, Tiibingen, Stockholm, 
Copenhagen, Upsala, Zurich, Ceylon, Calcutta and Oxford. 
