, 1876-10-15
limits, sales, "A; consideration, 1920: vest
or city limits, sales, 9; consideration, $4,5W'
Total sales, IS; total consideration, $354, 959.
TIE BOTANICAL GARDENS.

THE R0TA GARDENS,
AAH Oo 1AA< o0A.0 l'>-
The Chicago Botanical Gardens, at the South
po-,, ho,. Iar.,o,>o(7 ,,,,3ar +hotr ohla manages
1@h' na'e oese'opeu "noe' 'nen 'ote A4''.@e
meut beyond the expectations that were enter
tainad ,xhen %kr nroioct wac ,,ndarfAken They
.aa ,-o.+,,, - ~ .tt-oot;o-. ~ ~. por1- az do
aoo greatly TO the attfactlons Oh 1ne la'A' - W
the zooloeal Garden and the Aq4arum @ 'a III tof ne
90 49,, 1....., ,-;.-o. rom. in+a,-
the Chicago Aed'ca4 journa gives some lntel- Ter
been made up to the present time.
Australia, which was pcop1ed in the year 1870 by
less than !. 900 600 inhabitants, can point to five
botanical gardens established within is bG1dsss 2 f
cutta ia more than 100 years old, and covers 260
acres Of ground Java possesses in the Buiten
zorE probably the largest garden in the world,
as It includes 272 acres Of ground, and fur
nishes sites for plant~culture at elevations from
i. 500 to 10, COO feet above the level Of the
Up to within sfatu date n Nafs fffs
America-that connected with the University OF
Harvard. We say bnt one, for it is we'll known
that the Government gardens ut Washington eub-
serve chiefly the purpose Of providing bouquets for
members Of Congress, while that ut ST. Louis
small, popular, and showy-is scarcely adapted to
tbe etudy Of botanical science The Cambridge
garden, now seventy five years old, ie completely
lled With collections obtEincd from the botanists
Of the United States; but its chief usefulness has
researches. It covers ten acrcs Of ground, aud to
this snace has been recently added the pronnd for
an arboretutn
The Chicago Botanical Garden is located
in the southcast corner OF the northern
and western Of tho two South Parks.
It 1s safe to say that botanical garden was never
before established which h~s. in eimilar gnace Of
tfrne nccomplished the results which the ,nanaee-
mentn acIuallY exhibIt, Since The date Of Or
panization- on fhe 7Oth Of Anrii. .1S7S. s f91o
6acheta n seeds and LIVING nlnnts hive bern
rracairad here 5ron, Ena15n3 Trnnra Ger.
msnv Rrasia Hnuand 1f5ir Anetr;s Hnngrrv
las Amsfra1ia S,hiH Snnth sfrico tGane of 3;no1
Hone, Taicntfa and Tarinus nortiops ~ III
To{tci stntns tho 1sttcr chiefly fron, tha rarlon
~ Hs.ohi1~a' !Thasa ranrasant shon4 q ttnh 1;r;
anss;as Hnr;,9 ne ,a.pa t;ne oHso ohont nn7
pSt ~ n,.;.ss nInn4s sna sa,ads Iora 49, 49,
p+5 - r.r;nnss nar.a ~ +ho ,vor1d nr;nc;nolr n
prch.+ne ~ e. the cnnntries ment;nned afnre ~
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na an s. acra mn reovdad - their mt
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w. os. fs a tnr11ed ',awnw,rd in srcorJ.