Resumé of tlie seclion »Bolaniske Haver« from 

 Svend Briiiin og Axel Lange: Danmarks 

 Havebrug og Gartneri lil 1919, Kbh. l9W. 



Botanical gardens in the sense we now apprehend the notion were 

 not known until the year 1545, wiien tlie university of Padua 

 founded such an institution. Other universities followed suit, thus gar- 

 dens were laid out in Bologna 1568 and in Leiden 1577. It will be 

 seen, that the universities had the leadership in this regard, but later 

 on royal as well as imperial, municipal and private gardens were 

 founded. 



THE FIRST BOTANICAL GARDEN OF THE COPENHAGEN 



UNIVERSITY 



(HORTUS MEDICUS) 



In the year 1600 a new residence for a professor was to be erected 

 close to the university of Copenhagen, and on this occasion the king 

 Christian IV endowed to the university a site on which was to be laid 

 out a botanical garden. This garden had no gårdener, neither had it 

 any income; the professor who was assigned to the lodging was bound 

 to keep the garden in proper order. No alteration took place in these 

 respects until Rasmus Casper Bartholin in 1696 presented the 

 university with 1200 Rigsdaler, the interest of which should be used 

 to buy seeds and to pay a gårdener. 



We do not hear much of the garden during the coming V4 of a 

 Century; in 1719 the piants of the gardens have been transplanted 

 under the guidance of J o h a n n i s de Buchwald and arranged 

 alphabetically; atter the great conflagration of Copenhagen in 1728 

 the garden is reduced in size because of the regulation of the adjoining. 

 streets, and about the middle of the 17th century we hear that a går- 

 dener is attached to the institution for vcry niodest wages. 



THE SECOND BOTANICAL GARDEN OF THE COPENHAGEN 



UNIVERSITY 



(GEDERS GARDEN) 



The garden was really too small for the purpose, and the king, 

 who took a certain interest in the garden, and who in 1769 had 

 endowed it with 2500 Rigsdaler, promised to enlarge it with some 



