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Open to the public daily. Note: The questionnaire sent to this 
Garden was not returned. M. Lavellée,as President of the Société 
Nationale d’Horticulture de France, delivered an address on August 
16, 1882, which is reported in the Gardeners’ Chronicle (England), 
for July 7, 1883. In that address he credits the establishment of 
a botanic garden in Pisa (“the first botanic garden”) to the Grand 
Duke Cosmo de Medici I, and gives the date as 1543. C. Fedeli 
(Atti Soc. Tosc. Sci. Nat. proc. verb. p. xxv, pp. 8-20. 1918) 
states that the Pisa Garden was founded in 1544, “ one year before 
Padua,” but Robert De Visiani, Director of the Padua Garden 
from 1836 to 1878, and his successor, Pier Andrea Saccardo, in- 
sist on a later date (subsequent to 1545). Mattiolus, in the Pref- 
ace to his Commentaries, published in 1559, says that it was the 
new Garden at Padua that inspired Cosmo to found the Garden 
at Pisa. Pontedera (Epistolae ac dissertationes, p. 251) says that 
Padua, founded in 1545, was the first garden, Pisa later. 
(“ Primus hortus patavinus existit, qui ab anno 1545 principium 
ducit, pisanum autem secundum titulus januae super positu us OS- 
tendit.”) This question is discussed at greater length in Brooklyn 
Botanic Garden Record, 20: 1—24. 1931, 
BORIC! 
Orto Boranico pEL R. IstiruTo SPERIORE AGRARIO 
Ix Palazzo Reale, Portici, presso Napoli 
Established: 1872. Area: 2 ha. 
Directors: 
1. Nicola Pedicino (1872-1877) 
2. Orazio Comes (1877-1917) 
3. Camillo Acqua (in charge) (1917-1918) 
4. Francesco De Rosa (in charge) (1918-1919) 
5. Alessandro Trotter (in charge) (1919-1923) 
6. Giuseppe Zodda (in charge) (1923-1924) 
7. Giuseppe Lo Priore (1925-1928) 
8. Alessandro Trotter (in vi (1928-1932) 
9. Giuseppe Catalano (1933- 
Herbarium: 20,000 specimens. L ibrary: 5000 volumes and 
pamphlets. Affiliation: Facolta Agraria della R. Universita di 
Napol1. 
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