EUCALYPTUS TREES. 571 
because I wished to demonstrate that, from the early 
transcendental days of Greece up to the most recent 
decennia, all institutions designated as botanic gar- 
dens were mainly or exclusively devoted to the rearing 
of such plants as were adopted for medicine, for ali- 
mentary or industrial purposes; and it would be lit- 
tle short of relapsing into barbarism were we to alienate 
any such institutions of ours entirely from their legit- 
imate purpose. 
By way of illustration, let me offer a few words on 
recent eminent institutions of this kind. As one of 
the most important of all botanic gardens of the Eu- 
ropean continent may be instanced that of Breslau, 
founded in 1811, and since 1852 under the direction of 
my venerable friend, Professor Goeppert, who con- 
ducts his administration in accordance with the high- 
est principles of science. I am not aware of the pre- 
cise present contents of that rich establishment, but 
already in 1857 it possessed about 3,000 annuals, 
4,000 hardy * perennial herbaceous plants, about 2,000 
species and varieties of unprotected shrubs and trees, 
and about 3,000 different kinds of plants under glass. 
This garden is remarkable for its physiognomic groups, 
of which there are 84, and to augment these the tropi- 
cal plants are placed from May till September in the 
open air. Uniquein the Breslau establishment is the 
display of fossil plants, restored from original speci- 
mens, to exhibit them not merely fragmentary, but 
as much as possible in their pristine completeness. 
Carpologic coliections are made from the living plants 
with the most circumspect and scrupulous care. The 
botanic garden of Munich was founded in 1809 —at 
* The latitude is that of London, but the climate is much colder. 
