viii HISTORIC NOTICE. 
the lease of the Leith Walk Ground being sold. By 1823 all the 
plants had been transferred to the new Garden. 
In 1858, during the Keepership of John Hutton Balfour (1808- 
1884), 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 Inverleith property on the west side of 
the Garden and transferred it to the Crown for the purpose of 
making 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, Alexander Dickson (1836-1887) became Queen's 
Botanist, Regius Keeper and Professor, and held these appoint- 
ments 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. 
