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establishment, or are enquired about, are dried (i.e. dead) 

 specimens, and in order to cope with the various problems 

 which arise, a large herbarium (a botanical museum being 

 mostly a supplement to the herbarium arranged in a special 

 manner for physical reasons) must be maintained. The 

 herbarium and the garden are indissolubly united, the one 

 being unworkable without the other, and this is never 

 questioned in the principal botanical establishments of the 

 world, e.g., Kew, Paris, Berlin and New York. 



So that my references to a botanic garden are meant in 

 the full sense of the word, and not in the maimed or 

 restricted sense of those gardens which are mere parks or 

 horticultural establishments. Sydney is a capital city and 

 her botanic garden is truly a botanical establishment ; it 

 is also one of the oldest in the world. 



Following are some of the functions of our principal 

 botanical establishment as they occur to me : — 

 Training of Gardeners. 



1. The pupils of horticultural and agricultural high 



schools should, as far as certain branches of horti- 

 cultural work are concerned, be given facilities 

 for work in the Botanic Gardens. 



2. The Botanic Gardens will soon have to face the 



question of giving technical education in horti- 

 cultural methods to apprentice gardeners, and 

 even improvers. These young men should not be 

 retained in the establishment for a period longer 

 than say two or three years, in order that room 

 may be made for others. Part of their horticult- 

 ural training would be obtained in private 

 horticultural establishments and in horticultural 

 schools. 



3. Furthering the aims of the Horticultural Association 



of New South Wales, and other societies of pro- 

 fessional gardeners, banded together for mutual 

 instruction. 



