ESTABLISHMENT OF A NATIONAL BOTANIC GARDEN. 89 



In charge of the agricultural society since 1860, and has a school 

 of agriculture. 



One hundred thousand people visit the garden annually. 



Montreal Botanic Garden. 



[Extracts from first annual report, 1SS5. Gazette Printing; Co., Montreal. Published 



1886.] 



75 acres in area. 



They are located in Mount Eoyal Park. 



The surface is broken and much diversified in character, and there 

 is much admirable landscape work which can be effected. 



There is a difference in elevation of 195 feet. 



The soil in the lower parts is rich and of sufficient depth for the 

 growing of trees. 



There are about 3 acres admirably adapted to nursery purposes, on 

 the site of an old market garden. 



Of the 75 acres in the garden, only 18 will be inclosed in such a way 

 as to permit of exclusion on occasions which demand it for the proper 

 care of the property, while the balance, 57 acres, will always remain 

 as free and open to the public as it is to-day, with the additional ad- 

 vantage of enhanced surroundings for enjoyment and study. 



Within the limits of the garden proper, there is a two-story stone 

 building of very substantial construction and ample dimensions. It 

 will contain the herbarium, working library, economic museum, di- 

 rectors' office, and lecture room, and for this purpose it is well 

 adapted, permitting of future extension if necessary. 



Around this building, and directly connected with it, the plant 

 houses will be secured through the lecture room, which will directly 

 open into a range of houses specially designee! for the growth of 

 plants to be used in the lecture room, and to which they may be trans- 

 ferred without difficulty. 



11. The Botanical Gaeden of McGill University, Montreal, 



Quebec. 



[Extract from article by Prof. N. L. Britton in Science, vol. 4, No. 88, 1896.] 



McGill University, at Montreal, Quebec, carries on a small botan- 

 ical garden in connection with its laboratories. 



12. The Botanical Gardens of Ceylon. 



[Extracts from Popular Science Monthly, vol. 73, September, 1908. The Science Press, 



Lancaster, Pa., p. 193.] 



Located at Peradeniya in the center of Ceylon, about 70 miles by 

 rail from Colombo, the capital of the island. There is no town here, 

 but only a post office and a few scattered huts. The city of Kandy, 

 however, is only 3 miles distant. 



Some have described this as " an English glass house glorified," 

 because the climate produces such brilliant foliage and strange plants 

 in such luxuriant condition. 



