Vili Historic NOTICE. 
Ground being sold. By 1823 all the plants had been transferred 
to the new Garden. 
In 1858, during the Keepership of John Hutton Balfour, who 
succeeded Graham in 1845, a further addition, by purchase from 
the proprietor of Inverleith, of a narrow belt of two and a half 
acres was made to the Garden on the west side; and in 1865, the 
Caledonian Horticultural Society having resigned to the Crown 
its lease of the ten acres of adjoining ground which it had 
occupied since 1824 as an experimental Garden, this ground was 
also made part of the Botanic Garden. Finally the present area 
of the Garden was completed in 1876, when the Town Council 
purchased from the Fettes Trustees twenty-seven and _ three- 
quarter acres of the Inverleith property on the west side of the 
Garden and transferred it to the Crown for the purpose of mak- 
king an Arboretum in connection with the Garden; the Crown 
at the same time purchased Inverleith House and two and a | 
half acres of additional ground. | 
In 1879, on Balfour’s retirement, Alexander Dickson became — 
Queen’s Botanist, Regius Keeper and Professor, and held these — 
appointments until his death in 1887. During his term of office — 
the Arboretum was thrown open to the public. : 
Surrounded as it now is on all sides by public roads, no further , 
extension of the Garden upon its present site can be made. | 
