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nursery. Care has been given to existing native plants on the 
property, to soil improvement, and preliminary development of 
roads and fences. 
WASHINGTON (3) 
MepIcINAL AND DruGc PLANT GARDENS 
Division of Drug Plants, Bureau of Plant Industry, U. S. Dept. 
of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 
Mimeographed lists of the plants grown may be obtained on 
request. 
Florida 
COCONUT GROVE 
FAIRCHILD TROPICAL GARDEN 
(Also MontcoMERY PALMETUM) 
Established (Dedicated): March 23, 1938. Area: 83 acres. 
Director (Superintendent): K. Dahlberg (1938- 
“The only tropical botanical garden open to the public in conti- 
nental United States.” Prior to March 23, 1938, Colonel and 
Mrs. Robert H. Montgomery acquired and gave to the Board of 
Directors (Dr. David Fairchild, President Emeritus; Eleanor F. 
Montgomery, President) 83 acres of land “ situated in the City of 
Coral Gables adjoining and immediately south of the Matheson 
Hammock and Dade County Park, east of Cutter Road. Com- 
bined with the Dade County property the land runs to and has a 
frontage of one mile on Biscayne Bay.” (Pamphlet, “ Dedica- 
tion of the Fairchild Tropical Garden, March 23, 1938,” by Mar- 
jory Stoneman Douglas.) The Commissioners of Dade County 
“agreed to cooperate by combining as far as practicable, the entire 
Matheson Hammock development, comprising several hundred 
acres, with the Fairchild acquisition. The Dade County Commis- 
sioners are not permitted to spend any money on private property, 
consequently the Fairchild Garden donated and deeded to Dade 
County 58 acres of land adjoining the Matheson property and the 
Commissioners have undertaken to develop the 58 acre tract as 
part of the Fairchild Garden. The remaining 25 acres are re- 
tained by the Fairchild Garden and will be known as the Mont- 
gomery Palmetum of the Fairchild Tropical Garden.” 
