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make appropriations for its support. No one else had suffi- 
cient interest and ability to keep up the necessary repairs and 
supplies. Such repairs as were made by the tenants up to 
the time of the lease to Shaw in 1828, were evidently unsub- 
stantial; for, as above noted, the grounds and buildings are 
repeatedly spoken of as much out of repair, deteriorated, or 
dilapidated (ante, pp. 328, 334, 335). 
After 1819, when the green-house plants were removed, 
though its botanical character suffered, the trustees aimed, as 
the leases show, to preserve the ornamental features of the 
garden, as an attraction to purchasers or lessees. 
The earliest known engraving of the garden is the elegant 
one by L. Simond, published in the Medical Repository in 
1810, vol. 13, p.217.* Another by Reinagle, in the Catalogus 
Elginensis of 1811, and in the Amer. Med. and Phil. Regis- 
ter, vol. 2, p. I, 1814, is perhaps less attractive, but gives a 
wider view of the grounds. A third, much like the first, 
from a little different point of view, said to be of 1825, with 
a copy of the Sully portrait of Dr. Hosack, is given in the 
Magazine of Am. Hist., 16: 218, 219, 1886. The latter, if 
its date is correct, indicates the continuance of ornamental 
culture till 1825; and though after 1819 it was no longer 
maintained as a botanical exhibition, the survival of many in- 
teresting trees, hardy shrubs and herbaceous plants must have 
long continued to make the garden an attractive resort. 
The leases given by Columbia were all for agricultural 
and gardening purposes.t Dr. Hosack’s offer in 1828 (ante, 
P+ 335) ‘*to restore the establishment,” and ‘to renew and 
improve the green-houses,” and Shaw’s petition in 1833 (ante, 
P- 335), show that these buildings were then standing. I 
can learn nothing certain after that of the state of the gar- 
den, or when the buildings were removed; except that 
according to the tax records, but one building remained on 
the block in 1849 (the prior records being destroyed by fire), 
* Lithographic copy in Valentine’s Manual, 1859, p. 204, dated 1825. 
{ Assembly papers, ‘‘Colleges” (Albany), pp. 410, 542, 590; Petitions 
for aid, 1820, 1824, 1826. 
