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there is also an arboretum of 60 acres, in which trees and the 
larger shrubs are classified in groups arranged on the grass. Both 
garden and arboretum contain magnificent collections of plants, 
and afford every facility for the study of botany. The Botanical 
Museum in the upper part of the garden is much patronized by 
the public. The specimens therein are arranged on glass-covered 
tables and in cases, some for carpological or fruit specimens, 
grouped according to their relationship. One case contained the 
plants of Scripture, another fossil plants, and many other miscel- 
laneous articles and products of the vegetable world. Structural, 
morphological, and physiological botany are taught and simplified 
or made easy by models in wax, and by living or preserved 
plants. One of the most interesting and useful collections in this 
museum to the student of botany is the papier-maché models of 
flowers, in some instances nine or ten times their natural size, 
which illustrate the various orders of plants. 
A series of the principal genera of each order, beginning with 
the Ranunculacee, or order of the butter-cups or ranunculi, 
clematis, &c., and ending with the Graminee or grass family, are 
so neatly and beautifully made as to be capable of being taken to 
pieces, as one would dissect the flowers themselves, to ascertain 
their parts and relationship. The fungi or mushroom order, is also 
well illustrated by models as well as by specimens preserved in 
alcohol, whilst the Algae, or sea weeds, and lower forms still of 
vegetable life, are represented. 
The garden is greatly to be admired for the excellent manner 
in which it is arranged, not only as a scientific repository but for 
its pretty little lawns, vistas, and background of foliage, the 
winding pathways through shrubberies, its old interesting trees, 
and for the splendid outlook over Edinburgh from the arboretum 
in front of Inverleith House (known as the Old Mansion House), 
which is the residence of the director. 
The class ground within the garden proper contains only herba- 
ceous plants and annuals (similar to the one at Kew), which are 
arranged in botanical sequence in long narrow beds, according to 
Hooker and Bentham’s Genera Plantarum, for the information of 
students. Therock garden is not an artistic design, being simply 
a terraced slope, ascended by steps, and containing several thousand 
square or triangular compartments for alpine and dwarf herbaceous 
plants, besides small shrubs, amongst which several New Zealand 
species were flourishing ; nevertheless it demonstrated how such 
plants, with attention and a knowledge of their habits, may be cul- 
tivated with perfect success. A semicircular pond in the centre of 
the ground was filled with aquatic weeds and the more showy water- 
lilies. The pine tribe scattered over the garden and arboretum 
numbers some 300 species. No fewer than 70 distinct forms of 
the English holly (lex aquifolium), variegated and green, are 
