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The following notes are based on Gerber, C. Les jardins 
botaniques toulousains, etc. Bull. Soc. Bot. France. 4me Ser. 
The early history of the botanic garden of Toulouse falls into 
three periods: 1. (1728-1778), when the emphasis, in plantations 
and instruction, was on medicinal plants; 2. (1778-1793), when 
the emphasis was on the plants of the Pyrenees; 3. (1793-1796), 
when the main emphasis was again on medicinal plants. The 
first garden of simples dates from 1728 when the apothecary, 
Antoine Sage, and others petitioned the Conseil de bourgeoisie 
(December 7) to provide a house and garden to be occupied and 
conducted by an Académie de botanique pour y faire des démon- 
strations de plantes. On February 14, 1729, the Council voted 
to establish, not an Académie de botanique, but a Société des Arts 
et des Sciences. This was organized at the home of Sage and 
stated, as its chief object, the main purpose of an Academy of 
Botany, namely, the establishment and administration of a garden. 
The above mentioned “ garden of simples” of Sage was located 
near the Tiercerettes. On September 9, 1730 he presented to the 
Council, on behalf of the Société des Sciences, a petition, which 
was approved, to establish a garden in the Saint-Sernin quarter, 
_to replace the small one near the Tiercerettes, which had been 
ceeded in 1729 to the Société Tiercerettes. The third aim of the 
Société was stated as “ The demonstration, by the botanists of the 
Society, of medicinal plants to medical students.” The Garden 
contained more than 1300 species—‘‘ more than any other garden 
in France excepting, only, the Jardin du Roy at Paris.” 
In 1746 the Société des Arts et des Sciences was merged in the 
Académie des Sciences de Toulouse. In 1756 a new Garden of 
the Academy, situated on the Rue des Fleurs, near the ramparts 
of St. Michel, replaced the former Garden of the Society in the 
Saint-Sernin quarter. Dubernard, professor in the Faculty of 
Medicine, became the first director of this new Garden of me- 
dicinal plants, and was sole director until 1778, when Phillipe 
Picot became associated with him in the directorship. Picot was 
chiefly interested in the Garden as a place to grow the plants which 
he collected in his numerous field trips to the Pyrenees, “so that 
he might study them at his ease.” Gradually medicinal plants, 
