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advantage, facilities for the display and investigation of all plants 

 directly or indirectly useful to man, and their products. This 

 conception would include forestry, pharmacognosy, agriculture, 

 pomology, pathology, and organic chemistry, and, in case the- 

 management regards bacteria as plants, bacteriology." 



This "broadest extension" is not carried out in any one 

 establishment in any part of the world, so far as I know. 

 Buitenzorg is one of the most comprehensive, but even 

 that establishment, with its large area of land, rich equip- 

 ment and assistance, and direct and active patronage by a 

 government which is less trammelled than that of any 

 Australian one, does not attempt the whole of the subject 

 under one administration. A purview of them shows at 

 once that no one human being could but have a smattering 

 of most. In our own State, forestry is dealt with by a 

 State department, pharmacognosy by the University, 

 agriculture and pomology combined by another State 

 department, and so on. The Economic Museum of Britton 

 is, in our State dealt with by the Technological Museum, 

 (which includes a valuable collection of economic botany), 

 and by the Agricultural Museum, which includes agri- 

 culture and forestry. 



The JEsthetic Element. — This refers especially to the 

 landscape element, and this is affected by the buildings 

 necessary for the purposes of a garden, — museum, her- 

 barium, libraries, laboratories and offices, glass-houses, 

 minor buildings, such as a bothy, stables, workshops for 

 the tradesmen other than gardeners, and workshops (potting 

 sheds, etc.) for the gardeners, dwellings for the staff. 



The landscape gardener has his limitations by reason of 

 historical and rare plants, especially trees, which it were 

 vandalism to remove, or in connection with which public 

 sentiment is known to be strong. The historical plants 

 and historical features of such old gardens as Oxford, 



