some details of the intended garden. This report caused a lively dis- 

 cussioii in the garden-periodical: ..Tidsskrift for Havevæsen" aboiit 

 the site of the garden, the application of the ground, the construction 

 of the houses and the design of the garden on the whole. 



It vvas from some hånd viz. the lecturer in horticulture at the 

 veterinary and agricultural college J. A. Dybdahl proposed to aban- 

 don the present plan and to lay the garden close to the veterinary & 

 agricultural college; bul at all events he found it necessary to have 

 an expert in landscapegardening to enter the committee. 



The government did not wish to alter the site of the garden, but 

 on the olher hånd it willingly entered on the proposal to add some 

 new members to the committee and in accordance herewith the 

 landscapegardener H. Flindt and the royal gårdener T h y g e Rothe 

 were summoned as counsellors, the former should work out a new 

 plan and the latter was charged in connection with J. (>. Jacob- 

 se n to give new plans for the houses. 



In the years 1871 — 74 the garden an as fulfilled in correspondence 

 with the new plans at cost of 642, 000 Kroner, and the 1 of june 1874 

 the garden w^as delivered in the hånds of the directory of the garden, 

 and the committee consequently dissolved. The garden was opened 

 to the public 9. Oktober 1874. 



The garden in form an irregular square, had by its foundation an 

 area of 9V4 hektares. It consists of a larger lower part holding the 

 9000 square-meter large lake, towards the east and southeast the 

 ground rises rather abruptly against the boulevard and the obser- 

 vatory, situated outside the garden at the highest point of the mount 

 (13 m.); towards the south and west the ground-elevation is more 

 even and soon the surface is quite level; on this plateau the museum, 

 the lodges for the curator and foremen and the laboratory are situated. 



The trees and shrubs are disposed all over the garden after a 

 systematically point of view, and from the beginning the peren- 

 nials were dispersed in the same way. In the western corner of the 

 garden a little grove was planted to illustrate the north-american 

 silva. In the centre of the garden the rockery was laid out on twin- 

 hills attaining a hight of 13 — 14 m., from whence a splendid view can 

 be had over the garden and the surrounding town. The greenhouses 

 cover an area af 2400 sq. m. and have a volume of 12000 m^, and the 

 glass-area is 3100 m^; a greater part of the houses has two layers of 

 glass. The highest point of the palm-house has an elevation of 19 m. 

 In front of the houses is a basin with a fountain, flanked by two span- 

 roofed houses. Also a water-lilyhouse, propagating houses, pits and 

 forcing-frames are found in the garden. The warmingapparatus of 

 the houses is based upon steamheating; the annual amount of coal 

 consumed is about 400 tons. 



The committee that had arranged the garden had proposed the 



