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NAPLES 
REALE Orto BoTranico DELLA R. UNIVERSITA 
Via Fiora 
Established: 1810. (1807?) Area: 13 ha. 
Directors: 
Michele Tenore (1810-1860) 
Guglielmo Gasparrini (1861-1866) 
Giuseppe Antonio Pasquale (ad interim) (1866-1867) 
Vincenzo Cesati (1868-1882) 
G. A. Pasquale (1883-1893) 
. Federico Delpino (1893-1905 ) 
Fridiano Cavara (1906-1929) 
. Biagio Longo (1929- ) 
Open free, with a permit, to the public on week days (except 
holidays), from 9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., 3 to 4:30 p.m. Sounrce of 
income: State appropriations. Library: Reference only. About 
O volumes and 5000 pamphlets; 110 current periodicals re- 
ceived. Plantations: Arboretum (the largest section), uae 
systematic, geographic, economic, school demonstration plan 
Publication: “ Bullettino dell’?Orto Botanico della R. Waves 
di Napoli,” established 1898. Offered in exchange. Subscrip- 
tion price 150 lire. Herbarium: Tenoreanum, Gussonianum, etc. 
Instruction: Regular courses are given in general botany, pharma- 
ceutical botany, plant physiology, and medical botany (demonstra- 
tions). To the Garden is annexed the “ Stazione Sperimentale per 
le Piante Officinali,” founded in 1928. Note: Toward the end of 
1662 there existed a pharmaceutical garden (of simples) called 
the Montagnolo Garden, in charge of the ee house of SS. 
Annunziata. Professor Pe etagna, the predecessor of Michele Te- 
nore, kept a small part of the Mt. Olivet janten planted for in- 
structional use. The real botanic garden was gece in 1796, 
at not actually established until 1809 under M. ore. ac- 
ale La Botanica in Italia. Venice. ig95.) 
ONAMNAWNSS 
PADOVA (PADUA) 
Orto Botanico DELLA R. UniversiTA prt Papova 
Via Orto Botanico 15 
Established: 1545. Area: About 5 acres (20,664 sq. meters). 
Claimed to be the first Botanic Garden for didactic purposes. 
The Garden was established by a decree of the Senate of the Re- 
