100 ESTABLISHMENT OF A NATIONAL BOTANIC GARDEN. 



20. The Chelsea Physic Garden. 



[Extracts from London Botanic Gardens, by Pierre Elie Felix Perredes, B. Sc, F. L. S., 

 pharmaceutical chemist, corresponding member of the Philadelphia College of Phar- 

 macy.] 



Chelsea Physic Garden was esablished in the year 1673 by the 

 Society of Apothecaries of London, by whom it was first held on 

 lease, but in 1722 it was conveyed to the Society for the Encourage- 

 ment of Botany. The garden was managed and maintained by the 

 Apothecaries' Society until the 21st of January, 1899, when, by a 

 scheme of the charity commissioners for England and Wales, the 

 parochial charities were appointed to be the trustees of this garden 

 in place of the society. Provision was then made for its manage- 

 ment by a committee appointed by the trustees of the garden, the 

 treasury, the lords president of the council, the technical education 

 board of the London County Council, the Royal Society, the Society 

 of Apothecaries, the Royal College of Physicians, and the Pharma- 

 ceutical Society, the senate of the University of London, and the 

 representatives of Sir Hans Slone. 



There is also a curator garden. This is a work garden, not for 

 recreation, but for teachers and students. Admission to the garden 

 is by ticket, issued on week days, 9.30 a. m. to 5 p. m., except during 

 the months of May, June, and July, when it is open until sunset. 

 The work garden is educational in a wider sense, and the teaching of 

 botany as a pure science has gradually replaced the study of drug- 

 yielding plants. (See map.) 



21. The Royal Botanic Society's Garden. 



[Extracts from London' Botanic Gardens, by Pierre Elie Felix Perredes, B. Sc, F. L. 

 S., pharmaceutical chemist, corresponding member of the Philadelphia College of 

 Pharmacy.] 



L8 acres in area. 



The Royal Botanic Society'.- Gardens, in Regent Park, were opened 

 in L812 and occupy a circular area of land. 



Its management is in the hands of a council elected by a vote of 

 the fellows : President, secretary, chief instructor of practical garden- 

 ing school in charge of garden staff, curator of museum. 



( i round is leased from the Crown, and the institution is supported 

 by contributions of the fellows. 



* About 700 student tickets are issued annually. It is chiefly an 

 educational institution. (See map.) 



•2-2. Tin: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew 



[Extracts from a historical and descriptive work by W. J. Bean, assistant curator; intro- 

 duction by Sir William Thiselton-Dyer, K. C. M. G., LL. D., F. R. S.] 



288 acres in area : founded in 1760. 



The Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew are made up of a union of the 

 Kew Gardens and the Royal Gardens of Richmond. They originated 

 in the Exotic Garden of Lord Capel. in 1760: they were adopted as a 

 national establishment in 1810. They were said by Mr. V. J. Lipsky, 

 a Russian savant, to be 1 tetter than all the other gardens put together 

 that he had ever visited or worked in. 



