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Serves as a public park. Open free daily, sunrise to sunset. 
Source of income: Local rates. Plantations: Systematic. Publi- 
cation: Seed List. Study collections and living material supplied 
to schools and to University classes on request. According to a 
note in Gardener’s Chronicle for September 25, 1937, the Glasgow 
Gardens were installed at the Kelvinside site in 1 30) i Originat- 
ing on the grounds of the old University, the collection of plants 
... went in 1817 to form ee nucleus of the first Botanic Gar- 
dens, which was situated at the west end of Sauchiehall Street. In 
a Bill for the acquisition bE the gardens by the Corporation 
was passed.” 
HOLBORN 
(Now part of London) 
JoHN GERARD’S GARDEN 
The “ botanic garden ” of John Gerard, author of ‘‘ The herball, 
or generall historie of plantes. Gathered by John Gerarde, of 
London.” Ist ed. 1597. (See South Lambeth.) 
Established near the close of the 16th century. 
Publication: Catalogus arborum, fruticum ac Deen tam 
indigenarum, quam exoticarum, in horto Johannis Gerard 
nascentium. London, Hatfield. 1599. 22 p. This is cl to 
be the earliest known catalog of any one garden. 
1IBHGIEAE, 
Hutt Botanic GARDEN 
Established: First Garden, June 3, 1812; New Garden, 1877. 
Area: First Garden about 6 acres. 
Directors: 
First Garden, James C. Niven (Curator) (1853-?) 
New Garden, Mr. Peake (Superintendent) (1877—?) 
Historical Notes: Sheahan’s History of Hull (1866) states that 
the first Botanic Garden “ was, we believe, the second institution 
of the kind founded by a provincial town in this country ; the first 
being that of Liverpool.” One of the promoters was ‘ Watson, 
the dendrologist.” For many years the garden “maintained a 
high character for scientific excellence, but .. . the botanical 
character began gradually to disappear, and some twenty years ago 
[ie., about 1846] was all but extinct.” As late as 1866 the col- 
