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GENT (GAND) 
JARDIN BOTANIQUE DE L’UNIVERSITE DE L’ETAT 
Rue Ledeganck 31 
Director: Couret de Villaneuve (1800 or 1801—?). 
LAEKEN 
JARDIN CoLONIAL DE LAEKEN 
No. I, Avenue Jean Sobieski, Brussels II 
Established: eae Area: About 3 hectares (of which 16 ares 
are under glas 
Directors: René Kinds (1900-1934) ; Léon Pynaert (1934— ) 
Open, free, daily as authorized. Source of income: Appropria- 
tions by the Congo Government. Library: A library of Soe 
Agriculture is developed by the Ministry of Colonies, lac 
Royale, Brussels. The Jardin Colonial de Laeken uses re source 
of documentation as well as the library of the Government Botanic 
Garden, 236, rue Royale, Brussels. Herbarium: The herbarium 
of the Congo plants is kept at the Government Botanic Garden, 
Brussels. Plantations: Plants are arranged according to origin, 
use and mode of culture. Species under glass: 900-1000. Lab- 
oratories: Some crops of economic and medicinal products are 
studied and analyzed by the Laboratoire de Recherches Chimiques 
et Onialogiques of the mere of Colonies, rue de Moulin, No. 1 
Tervueren, and by other Laboratories. Publications: Seed list. 
Bulletin Agricole du Congo Belge, edited by the Ministry of 
Colonies. Instruction: Agriculturists wishing employment in the 
colonial service fulfill a term of probation. School children are 
guided in the garden by their teachers who find opportunity to 
speak with interest about the origin of colonial and various eco- 
nomic products. A small museum aids in the teaching. Living 
material of colonial economic plants is supplied to both public a 
private schools when requeste 
The Jardin Colonial de Laeken belongs to the Direction of Agri- 
culture of the Ministry of Colonies and was organized by a decree 
of the 3rd of February, 1900. The object is: To obtain plants 
and seeds of useful ae from tropical origin; to cultivate and 
propagate them; to forward these to the government probation 
gardens in Belgian Congo and to similar establishments from for- 
to purchase, pack, and forward to the Congo the seeds and plants 
which they wish to grow in the Colony. 
