ESTABLISHMENT OF A NATIONAL BOTANIC GARDEN. 95 



fugitive qualities of the lettering. Of all the different experiments 

 made names that were burnt into porcelain alone survived, and this 

 system of marking is gradually being adopted throughout the garden 

 for shrubs and plants. In the various flora groups patented labels 

 and smaller written tickets of various kinds have been placed which 

 are inconspicuous and do not disturb the impressions given by the 

 plants. The smaller tickets are naturally more difficult to be read 

 and can not offer much more than the botanic name in Latin. This 

 is a condition which does not please the many visitors since the great 

 demand is for labels giving the German names of the plants, but 

 these people forget that even those plants which are indigenuous to 

 Germany contain for only the smallest part clear descriptions with 

 names in common use. In the Germanizing of different plant names 

 no purpose in landscape gardening is served. The main point is 

 that the visitor will understand that these labels with their oft-almost 

 unpronounceable names are primarily the indispensable identifica- 

 tion marks for official use and not intended to be memorized by the 

 thousands who visit the garden. 



Note. — The height of the roof of the Palm House is more than 12 meters ; of 

 the two wings 3i meters, and of the corner pavilions almost 5* meters. 



EXHIBITION SECTION OF THE BOTANIC GARDEN. 



A. First service building, containing laboratories, the botanic col- 

 lections of fruits, woods, products, etc. Also living quarters for help. 



B. Second service station, containing administrative office and 

 cashier's room, seed market, service and living quarters for the help. 



C. Large cold house. 



D. Victoria-regia house. 



E. Palm house with living quarters for foreman and auxiliary 

 quarters, with — 



(a) Central structure for palms. 



(5) Wing with adjusted temperature for ferns. 



(c) Tropical and subtropical useful plants. 



(d) Hothouse. 



(e) House for succulents. 



SECTIONS. 



1. Border beds at the entrance and for screening of buildings A 

 and B. Ornamental shrubs and high conifers. 



2. Exhibition place 1, of the southern flora of the Capeland, 

 Australia, Xew Zealand, and South America. 



3. Exhibition place 2, for the flora of eastern Asia. 



4. Exhibition place 3, of subtropical flora and location of Antarctic 

 plants. 



5. Trees and shrubs from Amurland, China, Japan. 



6. East Asiatic flora from the Himalayas to Japan, with location 

 of cold-house plants. 



7. Conifers and deciduous trees. 



8. Xorth American tree and shrub section. 



9. (Northern section.) Conifers of the Rocky Mountains and 

 California to Pennsylvania in North America. 



