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of more benefit to mankind. ... We will build here the most 
beautiful, and at the same time the most useful, garden of its kind 
in the world.” 
Source of Income: Income from endowment provided by the 
founder, Col. William Boyce Thompson. Through Special Usage 
Permit trom the WU, 3: iy Forest Service, the total area avail- 
able for Arboretum purposes has been increased to 1,760 acres. 
The mean jeatra 1S 17 pores about equally divided between 
cies -summer and winter. 
ough eoaeaniicn with the Forest Service, a nursery is main- 
a “fos the growth of plants for erosion control, revegetation 
and ornamentation, for use on public lands. Guest house for 
visiting scientists; the Thompson residence is available to donors. 
California 
ANAHEIM 
RancHo SANTA ANA BOTANIC GARDEN 
Ra©- Box 327, RF. DD. 3; Ananem 
Executive Office: 1280 Shenandoah Road, San Marino. 
Established: 1927. Area: 200 acres. 
Director and Founder: Mrs. Susanna Bixby Bryant. 
Open Fridays, April, May, and June, 10 a.m. to4 pm. Source 
of income: Private smite ent. Library: About 2000 volumes. 
Herbarium: 21,000 mounted specimens of plants eee to 
California. PiLnnone: erent ecologic. Restricted to Cali- 
fornia flora. Museum: Admission only by permit to i obtained 
by written request to ae a ar severe building. Publications: 
Descriptive pamphlet (19 oe ieee ee papers. Monographs : 
Horticultural Series; Botanical Series are “just beginning ” 
(1938). Report (Privately en April wlOST. 
The announced primary purpose is to provide facilities for 
research in plant life by assembling in one accessible locality a 
living collection of the different species of plants indigenous to 
California that will grow in the Santa Ana Cafion, Orange County, 
40 miles East of Los Angeles. Educational work is planned in 
cooperation with schools and colleges in their nature study and 
botany classes by means of field days at the Ranch. 
“The Garden Foundation was legally established in 1934 under 
which the properties and endowment were placed in the hands of a 
