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town hiiild hy professor Georj^ H. Wc her from volimtaiy contri- 

 butions. This garden was in 1807 put under the guidance of his son 

 I*' r i e d e r i e \V e b e r. The curator Peter H 6 h 1 e was appointed from 

 1800 until 1881. Twice the garden was enlarged and had in 1822 an 

 area of about 2^2 hekt. (4"/a Td.) The greenhoiises were built partly 

 at the start in 1802 partly in 1810 and 1820. The collections were 

 rather large, in 1822 about 6000 species. Ferdinand Nolte 

 succeeded Weber as director of the garden and about 1855 C. I) a 1) I e 

 was curator there. 



ROYAL BOTANICAL (iARDENS IN DENMARK 



In 1606 the king Christian W. l)ought a nuniber of gardens 

 situated outside the town and here in fhe years 1610 — 24 he erectefl 

 the famous casth^ Rosenborg. The garden to this castle was rather 

 spacious and the king found it desiralde liere to make a botanical 

 garden, and in consequence herewitli such a one was laid out and 

 in the year 1638 put under the guidance of dr. O. Sperling. This 

 l)otanist was a very industrious and energetic man and soon brought 

 logether a large collection of piants; his „Hortus C h r i s t i an æu s" 

 of 1642 that contains 1519 names of piants bears witness of this, and 

 in Ihis respect his garden surpassed the garden of the university. The 

 curator of this part of the Rosenborg garden David Konig has not 

 been capable to manage the large collection, and Sperling expresses 

 his discontent herewith. A selection of piants mentioned in „Hortus 

 Christianæus" is given on page 337: the names mentioned in brackets 

 give the names now used. Several of these piants were to be grown 

 under glass and we also know that Sperling has had greenhouses for 

 this purpose. In 1644 Sperling feli inlo royal disgrace and as his 

 successor did not pay any special interest in the liotanical garden, 

 this soon decayed. 



Fred er ic V. King of Denmark had the intention lo erecl a 

 splendid (juarter of the town and in connection herewith he founded 

 1752 a hospital and a botanical garden. The latter consisted of two 

 parts measuring 11.106 D al. and 24.539 H al. divided by a broad 

 street. The famous ])()tanist G. C. O eder was designed to govern 

 this garden and the first curator was Kristian Hansen. About 

 1760 the smaller garden was finished; the greater one never came 

 to fuHilment although a wall had been built all around the ground. 

 Greenhouses have been in the garden and in 1763 it was opened to 

 Ihe public. As it turned out to be too expensive for the king to keep 

 this garden the smaller piece of ground was presen4ed to the uni- 

 versity. (See further about this garden on page 1). 



