BOTANIC GARDENS. 



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aff orded for the cultivation of vegetables and other usef ul plants, 

 is favorable also for the study of cultivated plants and the modi- 

 fications they have undergone." 



The New York Botanic Garden is the most recent acquisition 



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View of Main Greeniiouse in the Missouri Botanic Garden, with Flowering Specimens 

 or Agave Mexicana in Foreground. Eeproduced by permission from the Fifth Annual 

 Eeport of the Missouri Botanical Garden, 1894. 



