Features of the Garden. 
The method through which the Garden was built up by 
successive additions resulted in an absence of combination 
between its several parts, in great measure a consequence of want 
of adequate funds to make the necessary alterations in the 
grounds. During the past decade, in which the Garden has been 
wholly under the administration of the Commissioners of H.M. 
Works, the bringing about of this combination has been in 
progress. The work is not yet completed, and the Plan of the 
Garden which is attached to this sketch shows the area of the 
Garden as it is laid out at this date—January, 1900. Future 
editions will show further changes as the work of reconstruction 
proceeds. 
From its foundation the Botanic Garden has been devoted to 
the teaching of Botany, and its usefulness in this respect has 
determined the laying out of its area. 
Herbaceous Garden.—A considerable space is occupied by a 
collection of herbaceous plants arranged for study in natural 
orders after the “Genera Plantarum” of Bentham and Hooker. 
Rock Garden.—There is an extensive rockwork upon which 
alpine and rarer herbaceous plants are cultivated. 
Arboretum.—The whole of the western area of the Garden 
will be eventually utilised as an Arboretum of trees and shrubs, 
with the exception of the Conifers, which are now placed in the 
ground adjacent to the Rock Garden. 
The Plant-Houses are still in process of reconstruction. So 
far as they have been rearranged at the present time they consist 
of a long range to the north of the herbaceous collection, com- 
posed of a Central Green-house, from the sides of which two 
Corridors run east and west (H). In the Entrance Porch to the 
Central Green-house is a collection of Insectivorous Plants (I). 
From the Eastern Corridor two houses project to the south—one 
occupied by Plants of Dry Regions (F), the other containing 
