JOURNAL 
OF 
The New York Botanical Garden 
VoL. XIV December, 1913 No. 168 
THE IMPERIAL BOTANIC GARDEN OF PETER THE 
GREAT AT ST. PETERSBURG* 
On June 24, the bicentenary of the Imperial Botanic Garden 
of St. Petersburg was celebrated under the auspices of the 
Russian government. The festivities, which were of a very 
solemn character, took place in one of the buildings in the 
Garden and were attended by the Princes Peter and Alexander 
of Oldenburg, Prince Gagarin as representative of Princess 
Eugenia of Oldenburg, the patroness of the Garden, the Ministers 
of Agriculture and Crown Domains, Commerce, Justice, Public 
Instruction and Marine, and other prominent officials and 
large number of delegates from the Russian academies, uni- 
versities, botanic gardens and similar institutions and from 
foreign countries. he Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and the 
Physic Garden, Chelsea, were represented by the writer of this 
article 
The meeting was preceded by a Te Deum, after which the 
t of Imperial Botanic Garden of Peter the Great. Then 
followed an oration by the director, Professor Fischer von 
* An article published in the Kew Bulletin of anata Information, No. 
1913, pages 243-252, and reprinted here by perm ission of t 2 Controller on aL 
Britannic Majesty's Stationery Office. In the = ew ss the article is illus- 
& trated with two plates not included in this repri 
© [Journaz for November, 1913 (14: 181 ie was issued December 4, 1913] 
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