116 ESTABLISHMENT OF A NATIONAL BOTANIC GARDEN. 



10. Botanic Garden at Singapore. 



[Extracts from A Traveler's Notes, by James H. Veitch ; published by James Veitch 

 & Sons, Royal Exotic Nursery, Chelsea, 1896.] 



66 acres in area. 



These gardens are situated about 3 miles out of the town and are 

 very well kept. They are entirely surrounded by a public road, and 

 contain a very fine lake with an island in it. 



The herbarium contains a large collection of Malay plants. The 

 aviary and the menagerie contain many interesting specimens. 



In the experimental and economic gardens are many kinds of 

 plants yielding dyes, oils, spices, resins, fibers, as well as many me- 

 dicinal plants, etc., carefully labeled and arranged as to their par- 

 ticular economic value. There is also a fine collection of oaks. 



11. Public Gardens at Penang, India. 



[Extracts from A Traveler's Notes, by James H. Veitch; published by James Veitch 

 & Sons, Royal Exotic Nursery, Chelsea, 1896.] 



55 acres in area. 



These gardens are located about 11 miles from Georgetown. They 

 are of horseshoe shape, quite surrounded by a range of hills about 

 5.000 feet elevation. All the ground is undulated. 



The work on these gardens was practically begun in 1890. The 

 whole park is under grass, coarse but good. There is a small collec- 

 tion of economic plants in the garden which is to be increased, as it is 

 •onsidered a useful feature to the planters in the island. 



The office building shelters a rich herbarium of the Penang flora. 

 The houses in this garden are roofed with palm stems. 



l-j. The Botanical Garden of Geneva, Switzerland. 



[Extracl from an article by Prof. N. L. Britton, in Science, Vol. IV, No. 88, 1S96.] 



The botanical garden of Geneva was founded in L81T, and is situ- 

 ated in the heart of the city, near the university. There are two 

 small greenhouses, a very large and important herbarium and library, 

 and a small museum. The Laboratories of the university are ex- 

 trusive and well equipped, affording capital facilities for work along 

 all lines of botanical investigation. The De Candolle herbarium and 

 library, and the Boissier herbarium and library, which are near by, 

 afford, in connection with the collections of the garden, unsurpassed 

 facilities for taxonomic study. 



13. The Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Brooklyn, X. Y. 



4s acres in area. 



The Brooklyn (X. Y.) Botanic Garden was established in L897. 

 It is under the general jurisdiction of the board or committee of 

 public parks of New York City, but under the direct management of 

 the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. This latter body raised 

 prior to L909 $50,000 as an endowment, the interest on which is to 

 be used for the purchase of plants, flowers, shrubs, and trees for the 

 garden. 



