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Aveust 17, 1895.] 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE 177 
CATTLEYA 
AUREA. 
Odontoglossum 
crispum. 
CYPRIPEDIUM 
SANDERIANA. 
During the week large 
quantities of Imported 
Plants of the above-named 
Orchids have arrived at the 
Nursery, Upper Clapton, 
where a visit of inspection 
is cordially invited. 
HUGH LOW & C0. 
CLAPTON NURSERY, 
LONDON, N.E. 
SUTTON'S BULB CATALOGUE 
READY. 
NOW 
SUTTON'S BULBS GENUINE ONLY DIRECT FROM SUTTON & SONS, READING. 
Gardeners’ Chronicle, 
SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 1895. 
BOTANY AND GARDENING AT 
HARVARD UNIVERSITY. 
VERYONE interested in Botany and Horti- 
culture must have heard of the famous 
room in the Botanical Museum at Harvard 
University, бине the glass flowers are pre- 
e models, which have been manu- 
factured in ест у а man and his son, 
named Blaschka, are composed almost entirely 
of glass. The colour is very largely in the glass 
itself, although some is placed on after the 
Vhere Possible, the entire 
belief, and in some oases it is difficult to distiu- 
guish between the models and living specimens, 
when they are placed side by side. Quite recently 
an American contemporary gave a short review 
of the botanical work at Harvard, from which it 
at Harvard University, and he soon set to work 
to improve the Botanic Garden. Asa Gray, it 
was said, did more than anyone else to introduce 
the laboratory method in botanical teaching. 
With him the study of Nature meant contact 
with Nature, and not what someone else had 
written about that contact. In 1873 Dr. =ч 
resigned his professorship, and one of his t 
assistants, G 
in his stead. The other, William Gibson gm 
а few years later took charge of the work in 
9 botan 
e present time the herbarium of phane- 
the building at the 
А curator and two assis- 
ground tastefully laid out into beds. In these 
beds there are plants of 1500 native species, 
1300 foreign species, and 400 varieties. 
greenhouses there are under cultivation about 
2400 species and varieties. The arboretum is at 
Jamaica Plain, about 7 miles from Cambridge. 
It covers about 230 acres, Dy an arrangement 
with the city of ca this has been madea 
part of the metropolitan park system. The plan 
severity of 
a New England winter. How well the Direotor 
has succeeded is attested by the fact that 
the Harvard or ат Arboretum, аз it is called, 
is universally recognised as the finest in the 
world. The Taai Arboretum has become one 
of the most charming places for certain studies 
of a general nature within reach of the public of 
Boston. 
The Botanical passa at Harvard consists 
of a collection о о plants containing 
practically all the prodibts d by man. It is 
egeta. to note that New York will soon be 
n possession of a botanic garden of the first 
