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POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY.
tum is thrown open to the inhabitants of that city as a public park. The arboretum has nearly completed a description of all the trees of North America north of Mexico in a series of
Island and Lake in Botanic garden, Buitenzorg, Java. Reproduced from "Der Botanische Garten's Lands Plantentuin zu Buitenzorg, Java. Festschriftt zur Feier seines 75-jährigen Bestehens," 1893.
magnificently illustrated quartos, entitled The Silva of North America.
The foundation of the Missouri Botanic Garden at St. Louis is due to the munificence of Mr. Henry Shaw, who bequeathed for that purpose a tract of seven hundred and sixty acres of land and
