BOTANIC GARDENS. 



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were seen to be of secondary importance, and were soon thrown 

 aside in the effort to establish a natural system of classification." 

 At the time of this " renaissance " of botany the gardens rep- 

 resented the ideas of geographical distribution and classification 



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in addition to the practical aspects of the subject. With the de- 

 velopment of physiology and morphology the ideas thus brought 

 into prominence have found expression in the gardens, and the 



