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The  buildings  were  completed  in  1902,  and  on  July  25th  of  that 
year  the  garden  was  formally  reopened  by  the  Earl  of  Cadogan, 
who  is  "the  ex  officio  member  of  the  committee,  and  a  lineal  de- 
scendant of  Sir  Hans  Sloane." 
With  this  brief  account  of  the  reorganization  of  the  garden  we 
will  proceed  at  once  to  the  description  of  the  garden  under  the 
present  administration.  We  shall  consider,  first  of  all,  the  collections 
growing  out  of  doors,  then  the  plant  houses  and  other  buildings, 
and,  finally,  the  work  that  is  being  done  in  the  garden. 
The  Collections  growing  out  of  doors. — When  the  garden  was 
taken  over  by  the  present  Trustees  it  was  found  to  be  in  a  very 
dilapidated  condition,  but  under  the  energetic  curatorship  of  Mr. 
William  Hales  it  has  been  transformed  into  the  most  efficient  edu- 
cational botanic  garden  in  the  metropolis.  During  the  years  1900, 
190 1,  and  1902  a  liberal  supply  of  turf,  loam,  manure  and  gravel 
was  utilized  in  renovating  the  garden,  and  <l  instruments,  tools,  pots, 
mowing-machines,  watering-hose,  and  the  many  other  necessary 
articles  essential  to  a  well-equipped  garden  "  were  adequately  pro- 
vided. The  stocking  of  the  beds  was  then  proceeded  with,  the 
arrangement  adopted  being  shown  on  Plate  XXVI.  Plants  and 
seeds  were  obtained  from  the  various  British  botanic  gardens,  and 
the  old  plants  were  correctly  renamed  so  far  as  possible.  Special 
pains  have  been  taken  in  labeling  the  specimens,  and  old  mistakes 
are  nearly  all  rectified.  In  rearranging  the  beds,  the  special  collec- 
tions of  medicinal  plants  were  suppressed  and  the  various  patterns 
of  beds  which  had  been  in  use  were  reduced  to  a  common  type  of 
narrow  parallel  ones  (see  Plate  XXX),  the  plants  being  thereby  ren- 
dered more  accessible.  The  main  portion  of  the  herbaceous  collec- 
tions is  located  in  the  southern  half  of  the  garden  (see  Plate  XXVI), 
where  the  plants  are  arranged  in  regular  sequence  of  natural  orders 
according  to  Bentham  and  Hooker's  Genera  Plantxrum.  O/er  one 
hundred  natural  orders  are  represented,  in  many  cases  by  medicinal 
plants.  The  plants  in  the  "  mixed  beds  "  consist  mainly  of  such 
duplicates  as  are  most  frequently  needed  for  teaching  purposes.  The 
trees  and  shrubs  are  not  numerous,  but,  in  addition  to  those  indi- 
cated on  Plate  XXVI,  there  are  a  few  groups  and  isolated  specimens 
scattered  about  the  garden  (see  Plates  XXIV  and  XXX.  The 
following  list  includes  most  of  the  plants  of  interest  in  pharmacy 
that  were  grown  out  of  doors  in  the  Chelsea  Garden  in  1905  : — 
