Old and New Edinburgh Vol. V

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Inverleith.] THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS. 47 arrangement of British plants according to the Natural System ; a general collection of the hardy plants of all countries, and a series of medicinal plants. There are also a collection of European plants, according to the Linnzean System, and an extensive arboretum, a rosery, and splendid parterres ; a winter garden, museum, lecture-room, and library; a magnetic observatory and aquarium; with a construction of terraced rockeries, 190 feet long, by IZO wide. ranged geographically, so as to enable the students to examine the flora of the different countries ; and there is a general arrangement of flowering plants, illustrating the orders and genera of the entire world. There is likewise a grouping of cryptogamic plants, and special collections of other plants, British, medicinal, and economical. The usual number 01 students in the garden in summer averages about 300, and the greatest WARRISTON HOUSE. A public arboretum, comprising about thirty acres, along the west side of the Botanic Gardens, was obtained for A18,408 from the city funds, and ~16,000 from Government, This was sanctioned by the Town Council in 1877; and this large addition to the original garden was opened in April, 1881, and Inverleith House became the official residence of the Regius Keeper. Students have ample facilities for studying the plants in the garden; the museum is open at all times to them, and the specimens contained in it are used for illustrating the lectures. The University Herbarium is kept in the large hall, and can be consulted under the direction of the professor of botany, or his assistant. In it the plants are ar- 109 number is above 500. The fresh specimens of plants used for lectures and demonstrations averages above 47,300. By agreement, it has been provided that the arboretum, mentioned above, should be placed under the Public Parks Regulations Act of 1872, and be maintained in all time coming by the Government. The trustees of both Sir William Fettes and Mr. Rocheid were bound to provide proper accesses, by good roads and avenues, to the ground and to give access by the private avenue leading from St. Bernard?s Row to Inverleith House. Another avenue was also stipulated for, which was to join the road from Inverleith Place, westward to Fettes College.

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