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TheiWestiAmericaniScientist. 



Volume XVL 



January, 1908, 



Whole Number /jg. 



CALIFORNIA 

 CIATIOX. 



BOTAHIOAjL ASSO* 



SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA, 



our- work, and to co-operate with us } 

 and to use our advantages of climate 

 in the experimental and research 

 work of the several institutions with 

 The objects of this association shall wnicn t-hey may be associated. The 

 be the promotion of botanical science Pressors Of botany in the ieading 

 by exploration, experiment and re** universities Of the United States, the 

 search; the publication of agricui- Sectors Q f the Missouri Botanic;^ 

 turai and botanical works; the form- Garden, of the New York Botanical 

 ing of an herbarium, a museum, and Garden, of the Arnold Arboretum of 

 library, especially pertaining- to agri- harvard University, the National For- 

 culture and botany; and the establish- & ft©r, arid others, may thus be eon- 

 ment and maintenance of a botanical ^stently invited to advise and co- 

 garden and arboretum, in which ev- operate with us in our plans — and 

 ery known tree, plant or flower sua- as far as correspondence thus far 

 ceptible of cultivation, may be grown conducted with these gentlemen has 

 for purposes of public instruction, ex> £ofle their cordial assistance may be 

 periment, and scientific observation, depended upon from the start. 



It is proposed to effect an organiza» Tne main elements of the modern 

 lion, and to incorporate under the botanical garden are fourfold: — the 

 laws of the state of California, with- utilitarian or economic, the aesthetic, 

 out capital stock (as pecuniary profit the scientific or biolog-ic, and the phil- 

 is not its object), at an early date, anthropic. In the broadest intefpre- 

 and every lady or gentleman inter- tatlon of the economic department 

 ested in botany, horticulture, or the there might be included, to advant- 

 ■allied branches of science, is earn- age, facilities for the display and in* 

 estly invited to become a charter vestigation of all plants directly of 

 member. indirectly useful to man, and their 



The plans under consideration con- products. This conception would in* 

 template the establishment of the elude- forestry, pharmacognosy, agri- 

 fCALIFORNlA BOTANICAL GARDEN Culture, pomology, pathology and or- 

 as an insttiution of more than local ganic chemistry. 



importance, aiming to make it in time A Sense of the beautiful can be 

 of even international value, with maintained and cultivated in the es- 

 features that shall ensure it recog- tablishment of the modem botanical 

 hition among the educational factors garden, the buildings, roads, paths 

 of the nation. It is therefore pro- and planting being arranged with ref> 

 1 osed to select an "Honorary Advis- erenee to tasteful and decorative 

 ory Board of American Botanists'-, landscape effect. The cultivation of 

 who shall be fully advised of our decorative plants, and especially the 

 plans and the local Conditions, and festering of a taste for them, and the 

 requested to express advice and sug- bringing of unusual or new species to 

 gestiohs as to the development of the attention Fhd effecting their general 

 educational and scientific features of introduction, are important functions" 



