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The Botanic Garden of McGill University, at Mont- 

 real, Canada. 



The New York Botanical Garden, at New York City. 



The Botanic Garden of the University of Penn- 

 sylvania, at Philadelphia, Pa. 



The Botanic Gardens of the United States Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, at Washington, D.C. 



The Buffalo Botanical Garden, at Buffalo, N.Y. 



The Botanic Garden of the Michigan Agricultural 

 College, near Ann Arbor, Mich. 



The Missouri Botanical Garden, at St. Louis, Mo. 



The Botanic Garden of the University of California, 

 Berkeley, Cal. 



There are others also, but of less complete organization, 

 in connection with some other colleges, especially some 

 of the State and agricultural colleges. By far the most 

 important of the above list are the Arnold Arboretum, 

 the Missouri and the New York gardens (the latter now 

 forming), next to which comes that of Harvard Univer- 

 sity. The Smith College Garden was especially planned 

 from the start as a teaching garden, and as such is fairly 

 complete. 1 School gardens have scarcely at all received 

 attention in this country, but a noteworthy article by 



1 A full account of it, with a plan, is contained in Garden and Forest, 

 Vol. X, p. 512, 1897. The New York Garden is described in the three 

 Bulletins of the garden by Dr. N. L. Britton, an important address by 

 whom, on " Botanic Gardens," is in Garden and Forest, Vol. IX, p. 352. 

 The Michigan Agricultural College Garden is described by W. J. Beal in 

 Garden and Forest, Vol. VIII, pp. 303, 322. 



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