"artificial form. The engineer would/be in danger of running into geomet- 
nical figures and grading with terraces. The landscape gardener will plan 
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52 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [ JANUARY 
writer's experience nothing pleases young or old students better; they all 
like it. The variety of topics for study in a garden are endless; it may be a 
study of many kinds of bulbs, rootstocks, runners, insect maneuvers among 
flowers, the study of eccentric aquatics, bog plants, plant dispersion, modes of 
spreading, effect of heat and cold, light and shade. 
s nearly as practicable all botanists would prefer plants arranged in 
families, but there may be in addition groups to illustrate certain features of 
botany, such as medicinal plants; fiber plants; compass plants; sen- 
sitive plants; climbing plants; hybrids; modes of distributing seeds and — 
fruits ; modes of self-protection by odors, taste, thorns, nettles and the like; 
a weed garden; a grass garden ; a collection of host plants affected by cer- 
tain interesting fungi, especially those living on two hosts like the rust on 
barberry and wheat, sedge and nettle, cedar and apple-tree ; plants delighting 
in dry sand ; plants holding fruit in winter; a group of plants abundantly 
clothed with hairs; a group of small evergreens, broad-leaved and pin-leaved; 
a floral clock ; plants indicating fertile soil or barren soil ; a group of native 
plants promising for cultivation for their seeds or fruits; plants of especial 
use for protecting hillsides and embankments-; plants useful for carp ponds; 
plants poisonous to the touch ; plants poisonous to eat; parasitic plants ; 
saprophytic c arenencen cane and the formation of still other groups which 
will occur to botan 7 
The mere ice would discard the natural system of classification 
in his grouping and run to bedding plants, mixed borders, duplicate patches 
often arranged symmetrically, and very likely more or less trimmed into 
especially for display, employing a limited number of multiple plats of what 
he terms the choicest gems of plant growth, neglecting all else. The mere 
botanist will like a variety, but will most likely lack the tact of the gardener | 
in planting and the eters of plants, such as giving oe the treatment 
ena to its needs. 
ess the greatest success will be attained when the director has in a 
consaahe deepest of a botanist, the deft hand of a gardener, the 
skill of | ines , the taste of the landscape artist. As he lacks in a 
marked device novel — the —— will fall short of the best that can be 
done with the means at hand. 
Wealthy persons endow gebveneniical observatories, dexwiterice, labora ; 
tories, libraries, professorships, ne but very rarely think of endow 
1a ee Yet as we look at it an be n deli 
the thought of h 
shall be a great attraction to tk 
