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HORTIC ULTUEE 



September 7, 1918 



SOME BOSTON INSTITUTIONS. 

 Bussey Institution. 



The Bussey Institution is situated 

 at the outer edge of Jamaica Plain. 

 Massachusetts, about five miles south- 

 west of the centre of Boston, and 

 close to the Forest Hills Station on 

 the Providence Division of the N. Y., 

 N. H. and H. Railroad. Although 

 somewhat removed from the other de- 

 partments of the University, it is near 

 enough to Cambridge to enable the 

 student to attend instruction in both 

 places. 



The Bussey Institution is now or- 

 ganized for advanced Instruction ami 

 research in subjects relating to agri- 

 culture and horticulture, the subject 

 first established in this line being 

 economic entomology. 



Arnold Arboretum. 



The Arnold Arboretum was founded 

 in 1872, by the trustees under the will 

 of James Arnold, of New Bedford, tor 

 the purpose of scientific research and 

 experiment in Arboriculture, Forestry, 

 and Dendrology, and as a Museum of 

 trees and shrubs suited to the climate 

 of Massachusetts. The Arboretum, 

 220 acres in extent, is immediately 

 adjacent to the grounds of the Bussey 

 Institution, and, under a special ar- 

 rangement with the City of Boston, is 

 open to the public every day in the 

 year from sunrise to sunset. The 

 living collections are supplemented by 

 an Herbarium, Museum, and Library. 



The library contains approximately 

 thirty thousand bound volumes relat- 

 ing to dendrology, forestry and arbori- 

 culture. In these subjects it Is not 

 equalled by any other in America, 

 and students or specialists taking 

 advanced work in the study of woody 

 plants have facilities offered in this 

 great library which cannot be found 

 elsewhere. 



Any person properly qualified to 

 pursue the study of practical arbori- 

 culture or dendrology may be admit- 

 ted to the Arboretum as a student on 

 application to Professor C. S. Sargent, 

 Jamaica Plain, Mass. 



Botanic Garden. 



The Botanic Garden, founded in 

 1807, occupies about seven seres of 

 land at the corner of Linnaean and 

 Garden Streets, Cambridge More 

 than five thousand species of flower- 

 ing plants are cultivated for educa- 

 tional and scientific purpose. 



The range of greenhouses com- 

 prises fourteen divisions assigned re- 

 spectively to; (1) Desert plants. (2) 

 Exhibition of plants In flower. (3) 

 Economic plants and orchids. (4) 

 Palms and their allies, aroids, etc. 



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(5) Mexican plants, ferns, and or- 

 chids. (6) Potting shed. (7) Tropi- 

 cal ferns and orchids. (8) Australa- 

 sian plants. (9), (10), (11) Assigned 

 to experimental work in vegetable 

 physiology. (12) F>ropagating house. 

 (13) Potting shed. (14) Herbaceous 

 plants for the students in Botany 1. 



The space at the northwestern part 

 of the Garden is devoted to an ex- 

 hibition of a large number of our 

 North American species, with special 

 reference to their morphology. The 

 ground below the terrace is filled 

 with illustrations of the Orders and 

 principal Genera of the plants of the 

 United States, together with species 

 from the Old World for comparison. 



The grounds and greenhouses are 

 open to the public daily, from sunrise 

 to sunset. 



To students properly qualified, 

 specimens of flowers and living plants 

 are freely furnished, and facilities are 

 offered in the laboratories in the Gar- 

 den, for pursuing investigations in 

 morphology. Under certain restric- 

 tions, students are supplied with aV 

 necessary appliances for conducting 

 experiments in Vegetable Physiology, 

 and its application to practical ques- 

 tions in horticulture. 



From the first week in July until 

 the second week In August, regular 

 instruction in Botany is given at the 

 Botanic Garden, in connection with 

 the Summer School. 



Gray Herbarium 

 The Gray Herbarium occupies a 

 building In the Botanic Garden. The 

 collection, presented to Harvard Uni- 

 versity in 1864 by the late Professor 

 Asa Gray, now contains over four 

 hundred thousand sheets of mounted 

 specimens and is the result of more 

 than sixty years of continuous growth. 

 It embraces all orders of flowering 



plants, ferns, and fern-allies, while 

 the bryophytes, fungi, lichens, and 

 algae have now been transferred to 

 the Cryptogamic Herbarium in the 

 Botanical Division of the University 

 Museum. The Gray Herbarium la 

 rich in type specimens of species and 

 varieties, in standard and rare phaen- 

 ogamic exsiccati, and in the possession 

 of the greater part of the specimens 

 which have been critically studied In 

 the preparation of the "Synoptical 

 Flora of North America." 



The Herbarium may be consulted, 

 under supervision of the staff, by ad- 

 vanced students and other properly 

 qualified peisons. Visiting specialists 

 receive such facilities for work as can 

 be given without interrupting the 

 regular duties of the staff. 



The Library of the Herbarium, now 

 including more than twenty-seven 

 thousand carefully selected volumes 

 and pamphlets, is open for consulta- 

 tion to all persons Interested in 

 Botany. 



The valuable local collection of the 

 New England Botanical Club is tem- 

 porarily deposited in the building of 

 the Gray Herbarium, and may, with 

 certain restrictions, be consulted by 

 persons interested in the flora of New 

 England. 



Botanical Museum. 

 The collections at present accessi- 

 ble to the public are on the third 

 floor of the central section of the 

 University Museum and on the land- 

 ing of the first floor. They are de- 

 signed to illustrate the principal 

 systematic, biologic, and economic re- 

 lations of plants. The large and in- 

 creasing Ware Collection of glass 

 models of flowers, prepared by the 

 artists Leopold and Rudolph Blaschka 

 of Ger-many, occupies the large exhi- 

 bition room. — Harvard Register. 



