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It is proposed to establish a National Botanical Garden in Rocky 
Creek Park, Washington, D. C, which has among other advantages 
1000 acres available for this purpose, which will make it three times 
the size of Kew Gardens. 
When we read of the various national advantages carried out at 
Kew, also at the Jardin d'Acclimation at Paris, a reserve of several 
hundred acres in the Bois de Boulogne Park, 75 alone of which are 
devoted to acclimatizing foreign plants for useful and domestic purposes 
(as silkworms from all parts of the world, etc.), also of the advan- 
tages for popularizing and reintroducing American trees and shrubs 
that formerly have been neglected, as at the Arnold Arboretum (220 
acres near Boston), we appreciate the need of ample space and room 
for future expansion. In connection with this we are told by Mr. 
Fairchild, of the Bureau of Plant Industry in our Department of Agri- 
culture, that several farms, containing several hundred acres, are rented 
by our Government for experiments, and when new and valuable species 
are evolved there is at present no permanent place for securing them. 
These perfected plants and shrubs should have their permanent place 
in our National Botanical Garden. 
The American Rose Society 
Is making plans for Rose Test Gardens at Arlington Heights, Wash- 
ington, D. C, and has sent to the Secretary of Agriculture the fol- 
lowing letter: 
Dear SlR: The rose growers of America, as represented by 
their respective societies, feel the desirability of having at some accessible 
point as large a collection of rose species and varieties as will thrive at 
any one place. The advantages of such a collection would be the 
opportunity for study and comparison by those most interested, includ- 
ing growers and hybridizers, and the educational value to the general 
public. 
Feeling that the value of such a collection is not confined to com- 
mercial rose growers; that such a collection could be well fostered and 
maintained under the present organization and equipment of your 
department, and that the climate of Washington is favorable to the 
growth of a large number of varieties, we respectfully ask that a rose 
