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‘J have by no means reached the end of a reasonable catalogue of 
the activities of a properly organised National Garden, but I have 
still something to say on another aspect of the question, and cannot 
spare time to deal further with this one. But I think I have said 
enough to establish my second proposition—viz., that an abundance 
of work is awaiting the appearance of such an institution. This 
country, most of it 1 remain undone until the Government, 
realising its importance, supplies the means for doingit.”. . . . 
Professor Pearson then goes on to consider the question in 
greater detail and to discuss the ways and means of developing, on 
practical lines, a scheme such as he has outlined. For the scheme 
to be complete there must need be a Central Institution with various 
dependent stations which should follow as a natural growth with the 
development of the scheme. 
“ As integral parts of it, there will be: (1) A National Her- 
barium and Botanical Library; (2) a Museum of Economic 
Botany ; (3) Research Laboratories ; (4) Administrative Offices. 
So much centralisation is absolutely necessary both for adminis- 
trative and scientific reasons. A good deal of the scientific 
work will, of course, be done in the field or at one or other 
sense. South Africa has not yet evolved a South African Garden. 
The National Garden will seek to justify its title ; it will gradually 
discover what can be done with the forms which Nature has so 
bountifully bestowed upon South Africa, and which have hitherto 
een so pointedly neglected in the country of their origin. It will 
teach those who visit it to know their own, and it will become a 
pleasing object-lesson of the great truth which South Africa has 
not yet finished learning—that the true springs of her development 
are within, and not oversea. It will also be a school o South 
African gardening of another kind, for it will train South African 
gardeners under South African conditions.” . . . . 
The question as to the proper site for such a National Garden is 
one with which competent authorities in South Africa are alone 
competent of dealing, though one suggestion discussed by Professor 
Pearson possesses an intrinsic interest which justifies its reproduction 
here. 
“One cannot, however, pass by in silence the suggestion 
which has been made more than once, that the Groote Schuur 
