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walls must be treated as an open-air museum of native plants of the 
southeast and of the history of American sculpture.” At first the 
garden was intended to contain the sculpture of Anna Hyatt Hunt- 
ington. It now contains a Museum of Small Sculpture (bronzes), 
in addition to the sculpture (by American sculptors) outdoors. 
There is a small zoological station near the entrance to the Gardens, 
and the grounds serve as a bird sanctuary. Publications: Catalogs 
and illustrated folders. The Brookgreen post office is now (1938) 
located in the old residence on the grounds. 
CHARLESTON 
Tuomas WALTER’S BoTANICAL GARDEN (DISCONTINUED) 
Established by Thomas Walter in the second half of the 18th 
century on the banks of the Santee River, north of Charleston. 
Upon his death the Garden was abandoned; nothing remains now 
except Walter’s grave, marked by a broken marble slab. Walter 
was the author of Flora Caroliniana (1788). Dr. John K. Small 
refers to this publication as “the first manual of the plants of a 
more or less definite geographic area,” and to the Garden as “ the 
first . . . in the southeastern corner of the American colonies.” 
(Small, John Kunkel. Manual of the Southeastern Flora. 1x. 
1933; Jour. N. Y. Bot. Jour. 36: 166-167. 1935.) 
COLUMBIA 
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA ARBORETUM 
Established: 1938. Area: About 6 acres. 
Director: Edward Caleb Coker (1938- D: 
Open free daily, 9 a.m. to7 p.m. Source of income: Budget of 
the University of South Carolina. Plantations: Confined to native 
trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants of South Carolina. A Pros- 
pectus was issued in 1936 and, about the same time, an undated 
folder in which it is pointed out that while the gardens at Brook- 
green (q. i 2 gi ive the aes regions their arboretum, the gardens 
in Columbia “will have a growth range that extends from the 
aa eats a North Carolina to the deltas of the Mississippi.” 
