250 
Area: Nearly 20 acres. 
Note: This Garden ceased to exist when the lease of the Gar- 
dens in Regent’s Park expired, in April, 1932. Before this the 
following information was supplied; it now has historic interest. 
Directors: Managed by a Council of Fellows of the Royal Botanic 
Society of London. The President of the Society Cae was 
The Right Hon. The Viscount Lascelles, K.G., 
Open every week-day to fellows and orders, from 9 a.m. until 
sunset ; on Sundays at 9:30 am. Open to the public on Mondays 
and Thursdays on payment one one shilling. Sources of income: 
Fellows’ subscriptions and en ce fees, and also by Parties, 
Tennis, and various minor sources. Library: Reference, 2000 
volumes. Over pamphlets. Current periodicals received: 
Devoted largely to economic botany, including agriculture 
and horticulture. No regular herbarium. Arboretum: Many fine, 
rare trees. Plantations: Herbaceous plants arranged in natural 
orders in students’ garden; elsewhere arranged for ornament. 
Economic, medicinal, and kitchen gardens, and rock garden. Spe- 
cies under glass: Varied collection. Publications: Masterl Sum- 
mary, ae the Botanical Journal of the Royal Botanic So- 
ciety. Issued quarterly; offered in exchange; subscription, 1 shil- 
ling. Discontinued. Museum: Open free to all visitors to the 
gardens from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Contained important collection of 
economic plant products. Lectures: Free public lectures were 
given during the summer. Living material, including wild plants, 
was supplied to both public and private schools gratuitously, when 
requested. Throughout its history this Garden rendered exten- 
sive services to students, 600-800 students’ tickets being issued 
annually as early as the ’eighties of the last century. Practical 
Gardening School: Established, 1897. <A full course of eeftic: 
tion was arranged for three years, which aimed to give the pupils 
a oa ae insight into all the operations of gardening and horti- 
cultu iploma. “Lady gardening students” were first ad- 
Hea in 1904 and reached a total of 22 in 1922. The large Con- 
servatory, built in 1845, enclosed an area 220 feet long and 75 feet 
wide. ‘Total area under glass was about 33,000 square feet. This 
is said (Nature 110. 185-187. Aug. 5, 192 2) to be “the first 
large iron ya built 4 in England, the palm- -house at Kew being 
constructed lat 
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BoTanic GARDEN (KincGs COLLEGE?) 
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