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Penzig (fifth director, 18860-1929; deceased March 6, 1929), did 
yodied in his two volumes on flanzenteratologic. 
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the work em 
The original small garden was enlarged from time to time by the 
addition of adjacent land, and in 1890 Thomas Hanbury (see 
under La Mortola, below), friend and admirer of Penzig, provided 
the University of Genoa with funds for the erection of a building 
to house the school, laboratories, museum, and other collections of 
the Instituto Botanico. In accordance with the only condition at- 
tached to the gift, the institute is known as the Instituto Botanico 
Hanbury. The building was dedicated in 1892 during the meeting 
in Genoa of an International Botanical Congress. The botanical 
museum, like the garden, is open at specified times to the public. 
The present director of the garden is Prof. Augusto Beguenot 
(1929- 
La Mortola 
A railroad journey of about four hours west from Genoa brings 
one to Ventimiglia, near the lranco-Italian frontier. A short 
automobile ride west of Ventimiglia brings one to La Mortola, the 
beautiful private garden developed by Thomas Hanbury, sq. 
(later Sir Thomas Hanbury, K.C.V.O.), an Englishman, the bene- 
factor of the Genoa botanic garden, and known the world over as 
a patron of horticulture and botany. The entrance gate is 338 ft. 
above the sea, and the gardens slope from that point down to the 
Palazzo Orengo, nearly 200 ft. below, and from there down to the 
ocean, which is in full view from various vantage points. The 
property was taken over by Hanbury in 1867, The garden has 
an area of about 59 acres, and has been developed in a strictly 
naturalistic treatment into a place of rare beauty and horticultural 
en, but experi- 
fu 
interest. It is not, strictly speaking, a botanic gar¢ 
ments have been carried on here for many years for the purpose 
of trying out the hardiness of plants from all over the world in 
such a dry climate, with soil only moderately fertile. 
A portion of an old Roman road, the Via Aurelia, built in the 
year 13 B.C. to connect Albingaunum (Albenga) with Nicaea 
(Nice) extends through the garden, and has been carefully pre- 
served. A stone tablet states that along this ancient road passed 
Pope Innocent IV, 7 May 1251; Catherine of Sienna, June 13706; 
Nicolo Machiavelli, May 1511; Charles V, Emperor, November 
