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tate their use in teaching. Open week-days from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; 
on Sundays from 1 p.m. until sunset. Lectures: The Regius 
Keeper, from time to time, gives lectures which are open to the 
public. Supply material: Specimens for private study are sup- 
plied, as far as the resources of the Garden will permit, to visitors 
and students who make written application to the Regius Keeper. 
Application forms may be obtained at the office of the garden, 
Affiliations: For more than a century and a half the offices of 
Regius Keeper of the Botanic Garden and Professor of Botany in 
the University of Edinburgh have been held by the same person, 
and it has become the custom that the students of the University 
go to the garden for instruction in botany. Instruction: Specia 
instruction in the sciences underlying the practice of horticulture 
and forestry is provided for the staff of the garden. The course 
of instruction is spread over three years, and consists of lectures 
upon, and practical instruction in, the sciences taught. A reading 
room and library is also provided for members of the staff taking 
this course. 
Notes: In 1670 a small area, St. Ann’s yards, south of Holyrood 
House was maintained by two physicians, Andrew Balfour and 
Robert Sibbald, as a Physic Garden. James Sutherland was ap- 
pointed to the “ Care of the Garden.” This was the foundation 
of the Royal Botanic Garden of Edinburgh, the real ancestor of 
the present Garden, which is (next to Oxford, 1632), the oldest 
in Great Britain. 
“Tn 1676 the same physicians acquired from the Town Council 
of Edinburgh a lease of the Garden of Trinity Hospital and ad- 
jacent ground for the purpose of a Physic Garden in addition to 
the Garden already existing at Holyrood, and they appointed the 
same James Sutherland (16??-1715) to be ‘Intendant’ of this 
Garden.”” This has been referred to as the Town’s Botanic Gar- 
den. Part of the site is now occupied by the Waverley Station of 
the London and North Eastern Railway. 
“Tn 1699 the King’s Garden, at Holyrood House, also became a 
Physic Garden, so the connection of the Royal Botanic Garden with 
the Crown goes back to this period. These gardens were laid out 
in formal beds devoted to native and foreign plants as well as 
medicinal herbs, arranged systematically. In 1764 both original 
gardens were abandoned and combined in a new Garden near Had- 
dington Place, Leith Walk. The plants were here arranged after 
the then new system of Linnaeus. 
