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on which it was situated as Apothecaries’ Island, a name which 
is still in use. Subsequently the garden also served teaching 
purposes, and as its scope was widened, room was made for a 
more scientific treatment. 
€ possess a description of the garden by Peter von Haven, a 
says: ‘‘The finest thing in the island is, however, the garden 
from which the island has its name. . . . One finds there many 
kinds of plants and trees as occur in ee and Asia, particu- 
larly in the greenhouse—so many, in fact, that Professor Sieges- 
beck, who is Director of the garden, assured me repeatedly that 
of ali the gardens he had seen in other countries or from which 
he had catalogues, none was equal to it. At my time several 
hundred new species were introduced from China and Tartary, 
so that the Doctor was busy enough with giving them new names. 
The garden provides all the apothecaries with herbs, whence it is 
called Apothecaries’ Garden. An apothecary resides always in 
the garden and it is his ica to gather the herbs and prepare 
them. There are also plenty of fruit trees, as is evident from 
the fact that the rent of the fruit trees yields several hundred 
Reichs-Thaler per annum. However, it must be admitted: bs 
most of the fruit is neither so large nor so good as with us 
the men who directed the garden or were etherwiee con- 
nected with it, it may be sufficient to mention J. C. Buxbaum, 
the traveller, J. G. Siegesbeck, known through his opposition to 
Linnaeus, and J. P. Falk, the explorer of Russia and a pupil of 
Linnaeus. The number of species cultivated in the Apothe- 
caries’ Garden does not seem to have at any time been very large. 
F. E. L. Fischer estimates it at 1,300* at its highest. In the 
beginning of the last century its importance declined very much, 
and was quite overshadowed by the fame of Count Alexis 
oe garden at Gorenki, near Moscow. This garden 
o its existence entirely to the enlightened taste and the 
generous ‘oa of its owner, and its dissolution after his 
Catalogus plantanum horti Im Leadarae medici Petropolitani in Insula 
Apothecaria,”’ published in 1796, contains 1,456 sp 
