Appendix 8 



Plants Growing Inside the Conservatory and on the Grounds 

 of the First Botanic Garden During the George W. Hess Years 



(1913-1934)* 



CONSERVATORY PLANTS 



Scientific Plant Name Common Name 



Acokanthera oblon- 

 gifolia 



Agave sp. 



Andropogon sp. 



Anthurium sp. 



Araucaria araucana 



Araucaria columnaris 



Araucaria heter- 

 ophylla 



Arenga pinnata 



Artocarpus altilis 



Asimina triloba 



Asplenium nidus 



Attalea sp. 



Calamas Sp. 



Camellia sinensis 



Carica papaya 



Carludovica palmata 



Caryota urens 



Cinchona sp. 



Cinnamomum 

 camphora 



Wintersweet 



Century Plant 



Bluestem 



Tailflower 



Monkey-Puzzle Tree 

 New Caledonian Pine 



Norfolk Island Pine 



Sugar Palm 

 Breadfruit 

 Pawpaw 

 Bird's-Nest-Fern 



Rattan Palm 

 Tea Plant 

 Papaya 



Panama-Hat Palm 



Fishtail Palm 



Quinine 

 Camphor Tree 



Origin 



Sw. Afr. 



No. & So. Amer. 



Trop. Amer. 

 Chile 



New Caledonia, New 

 Hebrides 



Norfolk Is. 



Malay Arch. 

 Malay Pen. 

 No. Amer. 



Trop. Asia, Polynesia 

 Trop. Amer. 



Asia 



Trop. Amer. 



Cent. Amer. to 

 Bolivia 



India, Ceylon, Malay 

 Pen. 



So. Amer. 



China, Japan, Taiwan 



* List compiled by Karen D. Solit from articles on the garden which appeared in the 

 Washington Star between the years 1914 and 1917. 



105 



