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Directors: 
Prof. Paul Preuse (1892-1902) 
Dr. Strunck (1902-1904) 
Dr. Weberbauer (1902-1906) 
r. Bucher (1906-1911) 
Dr. Fickendez (1911—?) 
Prof. Preuss (?) 
Serves as a public park. Open free, daily. Library: Refer- 
ence, small. Herbarium: More than 900 specimens. Plantations: 
The land is chiefly devoted to peat experimental work. u- 
seum: Founded in 1909. Note: Le Jardin botanique de Victoria, 
the chief center of peas of the former German colonies, in 
West pee was placed under a British mandate at the close of 
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Canada 
MONTREAL 
¢ Montreat BotanicaAL GARDEN 
(JARDIN BoTaNIQUE DE MontTREAL) 
4101 Sherbrooke Street East, Montreal, Canada 
Established: 1936. Area: Nearly 600 acres. 
Director: Frére Marie-Victorin (1936- 
Publication: List of Seeds, offered in exchange (specializing in 
interesting and little known Canadian plants). 
Note 1: Construction work began in the spring of 1936. The 
Garden is administered by the Commission du Jardin Botanique 
de Montréal of five members, including the heads of the botanical 
departments of the University of Montreal and McGill University 
(Montreal). There is an administration building (erected by the 
City of Montreal), two greenhouses, and a nursery (Science, 84: 
10, July 3, 1936). According to the article in Science, the first 
display unit to be laid out is an economic garden for school chil- 
dren and which in 1936, exhibited 124 varieties of fodder plants, 
grain crops, vegetables, oil-plants, ete. 
Note 2: In the spring of 1937 a multigraphed memorandum was 
circulated among Dominion botanists by the Canadian Depart- 
ment of Agriculture, Experimental Farms Branch, Division of 
Botany, entitled: “‘ Suggestions for the consideration of the mem- 
