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Canada 
MONTREAL 
MonTREAL BOTANICAL GARDEN 
(JARDIN BoTANIQUE DE MontTRmAL) 
4101 Sherbrooke Street East, Montreal, Canada 
Established: 1936. Area: Nearly 600 acres. 
Director: Frere Marie-Victorin (1936- 
Publication: List of Seeds, offered in exchange (specializing in 
interesting and little known Canadian plants). 
Note 1: Construction work began in the spring of 1936. The 
Garden is administered by the Commission du Jardin Botanique 
de Montréal of five members, including the heads of the botanical 
departments of the University of Montreal and McGill University 
(Montreal). There is an administration building (erected by the 
City of Montreal), two greenhouses, and a nursery (Science, 84: 
10, July 3, 1936). According to the article in Science, the first 
display unit to be laid out is an economic garden for school chil- 
dren and which in 1936, exhibited 124 varieties of fodder plants, 
grain crops, vegetables, oil-plants, ete. 
Note 2: In the spring of 1937 a multigraphed memorandum was 
circulated among Dominion botanists by the Canadian Depart- 
ment of Agriculture, Experimental Farms Branch, Division of 
Botany, entitled: “ Suggestions for the consideration of the mem- 
bers of the Botanical Committee of the National Research Council 
in relation to the establishment of adequate botanical services for 
the Dominion.” 
Topic No. 6 of this memorandum (pp. 10-16) is entitled, “ Na- 
tional (Royal?) Botanical Garden or Gardens.” Appendix “ A” 
is entitled, “ Suggestions for the establishment of a Canadian 
Botanical Service,” signed by H. T. Giissow, Dominion Botanist. 
Note 3: As of March, 1938, there was a bill pending in the 
provincial legislature to give the Garden a charter. The Montreal 
School Commission has assigned a teacher to give lectures to 
school children at the garden during the summer, in the schools 
in winter. A children’s garden, for giving elementary instruction 
in gardening is being established (1938). 
