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(4) the museum, (5) the library, (6) the biological station, (7) “ " 
seed control station, (8) the phytopathological station, (9) t 
seminarium, (10) the chancery or director’s office, (11) a eal 
for gardenin 
‘The Director is’ assisted by a scientific staff, consisting of three 
chief botanists, one chief conservatory five conservators, two 
assistant conservators Sand a librarian; by the staff of the 
‘chancery,’ which include s one secretary and accountant, one 
cashier, one “intendant,” one clerk and two assistant clerks ; and, 
finally, by two head gardeners and two garden assistants. There 
are further employed 35 skilled gardeners, about 50 “fixed” 
labourers of both sexes, and about as many artisans, guards, porters 
and inferior hands. The Garden has also its own electric station, 
superintended by an —— engineer. The impending completion 
of the reorganisation of t den will naturally necessitate a 
considerable increase of ne staff and of the annual grant, which it 
is » expected will reach a total of between £17, 000 and £18,000. 
The rk —The situation ofthe Garden has already been. 
deacttboe Its total area is about 22 hectares (54 acres), 12 hec- 
tares (not quite 30 acres) of which form the Park. This * Park’ 
is mainly laid out as an arboretum, with a parterre in the centre for 
the reception in summer-time of flowering plants from the tein 
and a belt of rockwork, rather over elevated, principally for t 
display of plants from Asiatic Russia and the adjoining Cita 
the plants being grouped geographically. There are also. beds 
with representatives of the principal natural families of certain 
biological types and of economically interesting eee on the whole 
pleasantly worked into the landscape. Very prettily laid out are 
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shadowed by trees, and given up partly to a collection of plants 
characteristic of the flora of St. Petersburg and partly to systematic 
groups, including a large number of oe or aquatic ey 
subaquatic plants. - One can see that me 
armonise in their ecological sinter with the wood, towable 
the edge of which they are placed. If Peter von Haven’s state- 
ment that sg vagal Island in his day was mostly covered with 
a spruce wood is correct, as it very likely may be, fe is clear that 
very little of the orbit vegetation has been left in the Garden. 
Of conifers only the native species (spruce, common pine and 
an 
rch), Larix sibirica ahurica (see plate), and Thuya 
occidentalis seem to thrive well. The preqalent trees of the 
Arboretum are deciduous, as for ins limes (mostly Tilia 
tance 
: pial or as they are labelled 7. uimndfalia)s popes binohess 
ad (Acer platanoides), bird-c 10 
forms typical northern meadows. Avenues os Si trough the 
pe and shrubs ets been planted along 
ashes, The ground underneath the trees is Soret a a 
fairly fae herbaceous vegetation, see in the small clearings 
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n places, some of which are doing ecelingly well, ts fos, - 
