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Regel, the practical man, and Maximowicz, the scholar, found 
their opportunities mainly in the marvellous progress made in 
their day in the ee of central and eastern Asia. In 
consideration of the aac aioe Lai of the Russian Empire 
d owing to the natural course of events, they wisely con- 
pees their efforts m a more upon that vast area ex- 
this made itself felt in the necessity of building up special col- 
lections, such as a Herbarium Rossicum, and a Herbarium 
Sibiricum, etc., by the side of the ee Universale. h 
garden an increasing number of Central and East Asiatic species 
were brought into cultivation, most of which found their wa 
into European gardens, thanks to the liberality of Eduard Regel. 
e publications, moreover, which emanated directly and in- 
directly from the establishment have been devoted almost en- 
tirely to the floras of Russia and central and eastern Asia. 
Nowhere is this more evident than in the Acta Horti Petropolitant, 
founded by Trautvetter in 1870 and continued by Regel and his 
successors 
A “‘seminarium,”’ or depot for seeds, gathered in the Garden 
or received from travellers and explorers or by exchange, purchase 
or gift had been, it seems, a feature of the establishment from 
the earliest times. It continued to be a special depeteat along 
with that of the ‘‘chancery”’ or director’s office, the “ park”’ or 
grounds, the greenhouses, the herbarium and the library. To 
these departments in course of time were added a m 
taining carpological specimens, samples of woods, fossil Ate 
and economically ped objects, a biological laboratory, in 
1868, and a seed control station, in 1870. To give an idea of 
the size to which the collections had grown towards the end of 
Regel’s directorship, it may be stated that the number of species 
and varieties in cultivation in 1892 is given as 27,030, that the 
annual accession to the herbarium from 1872 to 1892 had on 
the average been 20,000 specimens, whilst the library had 
grown by the end of 1892 to 24,000 volumes. The budget for 
the Garden was fixed at £6,330 in 1870 and, apart from extra- 
ordinary grants which became necessary from time to time, re- 
mained so under Regel. 
