adjacent gardens. This plan was not carried out, but the king resolved 

 instcad thnt a much larger botanical garden, which had been founded 

 by Geder under protection of the late king (Frederic V.) in another 

 part of the town (at AmaHenborg) should be given to the university. 

 This garden measured about 11000 squarefeet ground, it was well 

 furnished with piants and in a good order. Rottbøll, professor of 

 botany and niedieine at the university, had to take the charge of the 

 garden and as curator was appointed J. W. Kæsemacher, a skilful 

 giirdener. who had spent some years in the Amsterdam-garden. 



Only a few years the garden was allowed to remain here. Neither 

 was the soil so good as it ought lo be, nor the situation o wing to lack 

 of shelter. 



THE THIRD BOTANICAL GARDEN OF THE COPENHAGEN 



UNIVERSITY 



(CH AR LOTTEN BOR G HAVEN) 



The king therefore presented the university with a new site for its 

 garden namely the garden of Charlottenborg. Furthermore he re- 

 bought the Amalienborg-garden for 6000 Rd. The removal began in 

 1778. and in 1787 the professor Rot t bo 11 and the privy counsellor 

 Holm skjold who had arranged the new garden, were able to 

 report to the king. that the buildings had been completed as proposed. 



On this new site the botanical garden, which had a size of 3 Td. 

 Land i V/2 hektare), stayed for about 100 years, although the trustees 

 of the institution soon were aware that it really was too small. Already 

 in 1803 the wealthy privy counsellor C 1 a s s e n offered a fine site, rather 

 large (4 hekt.) in the eastern suburb of the town, where the garden 

 would have good conditions to thrive; but as the expenses by the 

 transfer would be too enormous, the plan was abandoned. Now the 

 garden was under the necessity of enlargement on the spot and really 

 in 1811 it succeeded in obtaining an adjacent garden, and in the year 

 1844 again it obtained an extension; af ter this the garden measured 

 about 4\8 Td. Land (2 hekt.). in which size it remained unaltered 

 until its removal in 1871. 



After the death of Kæsemacher in 1780 Niels Bache had 

 the curatorship until 1793, when F. L. Hollbøll. the most skilful 

 curator of the garden, was appointed to the post. He remained in the 

 situation until his death in 1829 and was succeeded by O. J. N. M o r c h 

 who died in 1842. .\fter Morch A. Weilbach was curator durins 26 

 years, and his successor was Th. Friedrichsen. The directorship 

 was in the earlier time of the garden in the bands of a commitee con- 

 sisting of Rottbøll and Holmskjold: later on four persons had their 

 seat in the commitee until 1817. Till this year the institution had 

 partly been under the university and partly under royal protection 



