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that he wished to make in such manner as to ensure their permanence. 

 The purposes of the trust are stated by him in his will to be "having 

 for the use of the public a botanical garden easily accessible, which 

 should be forever kept up and maintained for the cultivation and 

 propagation of plants, flowers, fruit and forest trees, and other produc- 

 tions of the vegetable kingdom; and a museum and library connected 

 therewith, and devoted to the same and to the science of botany, horti- 

 culture, and allied objects." Provision is distinctly made for the 

 perpetual maintenance of the establishment on the original site; for 

 holding the endowment in the form of real estate, in which Mr. Shaw, 

 following English custom, had made most of his investments; for 

 the establishment of public lectures on botany and allied sciences; 

 additions to the collections of plants, the museum and the library; 

 exchanges; increase in the means and appliances of instruction; and 



A Bit of Horticulture. Figs Prepared for Winter. 



the maintenance of the revenue of the school of botany up to a speci- 

 fied point. It is provided that there shall always be a director of 

 the garden, appointed and subject to removal by the board of trustees, 

 by whom his duties are from time to time to be prescribed, but who, 

 "when within the sphere of his duties thus prescribed and while he 

 shall faithfully perform those duties thus prescribed . . . shall not 

 be subject to the interference, management or control of said board," 

 though without such construction of this provision being possible as to 

 take away from the board the permanent control over the garden and 

 the grounds of the institution. The director's residence is indicated 

 as the garden home of its founder, and he is required by the will to 

 devote his entire time and efforts to its interests, and to so employ his 

 energies that from year to year the institution shall grow up in 

 efficiency in promoting the ends in view in its inception. 



