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PALLANZA 
VILLA TARANTO BoTANIC GARDENS 
Villa Taranto, Pallanza (Lago Maggiore) 
Established: 1931. Area: 200 acres. 
Director: Henry R. Cocker (1934— Ne 
space for 5000 shrubs; Water Garden. Note: Privately owned 
by Capt. N. McEacharn, and still (1937) under construction. 
The present intention is to present this garden eventually to the 
Italian nation. Work has been greatly hindered by the Italo- 
Abyssinian war and resulting “ sanctions.” Present personnel of 
40 is only about one-third of what it would be in normal times. 
“No plants, seeds, or bulbs may be imported from ‘ sanctionist ’ 
countries. No British periodicals may be received, including horti- 
cultural journals, and foreign seed and plant catalogs” (1937). 
There is a training course for gardeners. Publication: Seed List. 
PARMA (1) 
Orto DEI SEMpLicr (Discontinued) 
Established: About 1599. 
Directors: 
1. Pompilio Tagliaferri (1600 ?-1639) 
2. Lorenzo Porta (1639-? 
3. Ant. M. Bacicalue (1705-1738) 
4, Position vacant (1738-1749) 
5. Silvestre A. Ponticelli (1749-1769) 
Note: The present Botanic Garden at Parma is the successor of 
this earlier “‘ Garden of simples.” See Parma (2). 
PARMA (2) 
Orto BoTANICO DELLA REGIA UNIVERSITA 
Strada Farini 90 
Established: 1770, Area: About three acres. 
Directors: 
1. Giovanni Battista Guatteri (1769-1793) 
2. Bartolomeo Barbieri (ad interim) (1793-1795) 
3. Diego Baldassare Pascal (1795-1802) 
(Closed “ for political reasons,’ 1802-1817) 
