REMARKS 



EX-CHIEF JUSTICE DALY. 



The necessity of a botanical garden in the City of 

 New York may be presented from two points of 

 view. 



1, Its scientific importance and utility for the 

 development, improvement and preservation of the 

 vegetable kingdom, and 2, Its value as a place of 

 recreation and instruction for all classes of the 

 people, and especially for the working classes, who 

 have little leisure for recreation, and whose means 

 do not admit of their indulging in much expense. 



The scientific value and utility of such an institu- 

 tion cannot be too strongly stated. We depend 

 upon the vegetable kingdom for the food of man 

 and of animals ; for the wood devoted to such a 

 variety of uses and employed in so many handicrafts ; 

 for the textile fabrics that are required for clothing 

 and other purposes, and for the plants upon which 

 we depend so largely for the cure of diseases. What- 

 ever, therefore, tends to preserve it, to increase its 

 products and their adaptation to the use of mankind, 

 is of the highest utility, and it is for this service 

 that botanical gardens are required. 



