6 



2 subforemen, 3 slokers, 4 giiards and 20 gårdeners and workmen; 

 tlie niiml)er of work-days diiring the year amounts to 7000. 



hl the previous lines foiir different gardens have been mentioned, 

 but of course these gardens mav be regarded as a single garden — 

 the garden of the university — and while we above have described 

 the topographical, economic and personal circumstances of this insti- 

 tution we shall now shortly regard on what lines the garden has been 

 working, of \vhat use it has been and how the plant-collections have 

 increased or altered during the days past. 



In its earlier days the garden was a mere students' garden in which 

 on the first line indigenous piants were cultivated, and furthermore 

 it was a pleasure-garden for the professor occupying the residence. 

 Ole Worm brought several foreign piants to the garden for instance 

 Rheiim rhaponticum, Scorzonera hispanica and Mimosa piidica. J. 

 de Buchwald in 1720 issued a book with a description of a little 

 more than 200 piants: „Specimen medico-practico-botanioum" which 

 book the year after was translated into german by his son B. J. Bue h 

 wald: however, the translation does not agree fully with the original 

 not even in respect to the piants mentioned. Corresponding with the 

 piants described. dried specimen of the species are mounted on white 

 pages of the book. Allthough we can not take as granted, that all the 

 piants embodied have been cultivated in the garden (thus Viscum al- 

 bum and Ldthræa sqiiamaria have hardly been grown), we dåre sup- 

 pose, that the greater part of them have been to be seen there, and 

 presumably other piants not mentioned have also been cultivated. Of 

 piants not indigenous embodied in the book shall be mentioned: An- 

 tirrhinum mnjus. Cannabis sativa, Cniciis bcnedictiis, Cncumis sati- 

 vus, Cy damen ciiropæiim. Jnniperns sabina, Liliiim candidiim, P^^y- 

 salis alkekengi and Veralrum (dbnm. 



The size of the collection of piants while the university had its 

 garden at Amalienborg is not known. the garden took possession of 

 the large collections, that Oeder had brought together, these eml)raced 

 in 1763: 1500 species. In the Charlottenborg-period the number of 

 species increased from 2855 (in 1784) to 9500 (in 1857) and now the 

 garden can boast of 12000 species distributed over 2570 genera. The 

 composition of the collection has altered during times past, changing 

 after the taste of man or after the interest that the leaders of the in- 

 stitution have paid in the dilTerent sort of piants. We know, that H o 1- 

 boll in 1803 bought 25 different Ericas and that he the same year 

 cultivated 40 species of Mesembrianthemum; in the time of Mørch 

 (1839) the garden had 75 species of the latter genus and at the same 

 time 35 Acacias, 50 Pelargoninms, 10 Begonias, 17 Primulas and 27 

 Saxifragas, while the collection now (1918) embraces 28 Mesembrian- 



