

PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY AND AFFILIATED 



SOCIETIES 



THE BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 



The seventy-seventh regular meeting was held at the Cosmos Club, 

 Tuesday, January 9, 1911, at 8 p.m., with President W. A. Orton in the 

 chair. Prof. E. 0. Wooton and F. D. Farrell, both of the Bureau of 

 Plant Industry were elected to membership. 



Papers were read as follows : 



Botanical gardens of the east. LysterH. Dewey. A trip to Java to 

 attend the International Fiber Congress and Exhibition held at Soera- 

 baia in July, 1911, afforded an opportunity to visit several botanical 

 gardens at points along the route. The gardens visited were as follows: 

 Alameda Garden, Gibraltar; Jardin d'Essais and University Grounds, 

 Algiers; Botanical Garden, Penang; Botanical Garden and Experimental 

 Grounds, Singapore; Botanical Garden, Buitenzorg; Public Gardens, 

 Hongkong; and Botanical Garden, Taihoku, Taiwan (Formosa). 



The Alameda Garden is an attractive tho rather formal little public 

 park in the upper part of the town of Gibraltar at the foot of the great 

 rock. It is in about the same latitude as Raleigh, N. C, but the vege- 

 tation is more like that of southern Florida. 



The Jardin d'Essais, at Algiers, extends from the sea shore back to 

 about 200 feet up the hillside and covering an area of 80 hectares. It 

 was founded in 1832, and is doubtless the oldest and certainly the most 

 important garden of its kind in Africa. Its avenues of plane trees, date 

 palms, magnolias, bamboos, chamaerops, latanias and dracaenas are 

 especially worthy of note. Eucalyptus and Araucaria from Australia 

 are growing well in the upper part of the garden. Many of the plants 

 in the older part of the garden are crowded and labels are sadly lacking. 



The University Grounds, mostly blasted out in terraces on the rocky 

 hillside in Mustapha, the upper part of Algiers, is the special production 

 and field of study and work of Dr. Trabut, for many years botanist at 

 the University and botanical authority of northern Africa. This col- 

 lection of thousands of plants crowded together and made to grow under 

 difficult conditions, with the large number of hybrid agaves, eucalyptus, 

 papayas, solanums, citrus, etc., bear evidence of the tireless energy and 

 devotion to work of this botanical gardener of Algiers. 



The twelve-hour stop at Colombo, Ceylon, was too short to visit the 

 garden at Peridiniya. 



At Penang, in the Straits of Malacca, is one of the most beautiful botani- 

 cal gardens in all the world. Its Malay name, "Ayerterjun," is derived 



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