BOTANIC GARDENS 9 



up for the cultivation and propagation of plants, flowers, fruii 

 and forest trees, and other productions of the vegetable king- 

 dom ; and a museum and library connected therewith, and de- 

 voted to the same and to the science of Botany, Horticulture, 

 and allied objects." It was formally connected with theWash- 

 ington University in 1885. Ity a recent announcement of the 

 director such additions are being made to its growing collec- 

 tion of plants, library, herbarium, and apparatus as will en- 

 able a properly equipped investigator to carry on work in any 

 line of pure and applied botam^. At the present time the total 

 value of the garden and its estimated endowment is estimated 

 at one and one-half million dollars and its gross income at one 

 hundred and thirty-five thousand. The herbarium contains 

 more than two hundred and thirty thousand specimens, and 

 the library about eighteen thousand volumes of carefully se- 

 lected works. This institution will doubtless hold an import- 

 ant position in the furtherance of investigation in America. 



The Botanical Garden of Harvard has an area of seven 

 acres and contains about five thousand spccimens of growing 

 plants, so arranged as to facilitate research to some extent in 

 various lines. The herbarium of seed-forming plants in direct 

 connection with the garden contains over two hundred thous- 

 and specimens and the library includes about nine thousand 

 volumes of books and pamphlets. 



The Arnold Arboretum covers an area of one hundred and 

 sixty acres and is devoted entirely to such trees and shrubs as 

 may be grown in the open air. In direct connection with the 

 Arboretum is a herbarium, museum and library, for the pur- 

 pose of aiding study and research in arboriculture, forestry 

 and dendrology. The arboretum is also open as a public park 

 to the city of Boston. In addition to the facilities mentioned, 

 the university is also provided with a series of laboratories, a 

 museum, an extensive librar^^ and herbarium for research in 

 cryptogamic plants. 



The New York Botanical Garden, which is the most recent 

 addition to botanical institutions, is in processof formation on 

 an area of two hundred and fifty acres in Bronx Park. By 

 private subscription a quarter of a million dollars has been 



