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income: State appropriations. Library: Reference only. About 
pei volumes an pamphlets; 110 current periodicals re- 
eived. Plantations: Arboretum (the largest section), fruticetum, 
Ste (1813- ay and 1912-), geographic, economic, schoo! 
demonstration plan Publication: “ Bullettino dell’Orto Bo- 
tanico della R. Tae sita di Napoli.” seers 1898. Offered 
in exchange. Subscription price 150 lire. Herbarium: Tenore- 
anum, Gussonianum, etc. J/nstruction: Re courses are given 
in general botany, pharmaceutical botany, plant physiology, and 
medical botat ny (demonstration). To the Garden is annexed the 
“ Stazione See per ib Piante Officinali,” founded in 1928. 
Note: Toward the end of 1662 there existed a ana gar- 
den (of simples) called the Montagnolo Garden, in char of the 
religious house of Saints Annunziata. Professor pee the 
predecessor of Michele Tenore, kept a small part of the Mt. Olivet 
garden planted for instructional use. The real botanic garden w 
authorized in 1796, but not actually REECE until 1809 Gade 
the care of M. Tenore. (Fide Saccardo.) 
BADUA 
REALE Orto BoTanico pr PADOVA 
Via Orto Botanico 15, Padua 
Established: 1545. Area: About 5 acres (20,664 sq. meters). 
Note: This was the first Botanic Garden for didactic purposes. 
The Garden was established by a decree of the Senate of the Re- 
public of Venice enacted June 29, 1545, on the proposal of Francis 
Bonafede, who first conceived and urged the idea in 1543. Ten 
years earlier (1533) the same scholar, Professor of Medicine at 
the University of Padua, proposed and secured the establishment 
there of the professorship of simples (Lectura Simplicilum). 
This chair, the first professorship of botany in Europe, was 
founded by a decree of the Venetian Senate, and Bonafede was 
made the first professor. The Botanic Garden was established 
primarily to meet the need which Bonafede felt of illustrative ma- 
terial to enrich his lectures. 
Directors: 
. Luigi (Aluigi) Squalermo (called Auguillara) (1546-1561) 
Melchiore Guilandino (1561-1589) 
Giacom’ Antonio Cortuso (1590-1603 ) 
. Prospero Alpini (Alpino) (1603-1616) 
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