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Title: Establishment of a National Botanical Garden : hearing before a Joint Committee on the Library, Congress of the United States, Sixty-sixth Congress, second session, on S. 497, a bill to increase the area of the United States Botanic Garden in the City of Washington, District of Columbia and S. Res. 165, directing the Committee on the District of Columbia to report plans for the creation in or near the District of Columbia of a botanic garden comparable with the best existing gardens
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Library United States Botanic Garden
Subjects: Botanical gardens
Publisher: Washington : G.P.O.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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e calledthe City of Reference. The Exploring Expedition greenhouses removed from the Patent Office havebeen located here about four years. I may here state that the seeds from the collection are gathered, and, to-gether with such plants as can be spared, are distributed to the order of thechairman of the Joint Library Committee, the Hon. J. A. Pearce, Senator fromMaryland, and Capt. Wilkes; exchanges being managed by the superintendent. In 1859 the garden was spoken of as a pleasant place to visit, withgravel walks, bordered with box, rare plants, and trees. The cultiva-tion of plants had, therefore, by that time been extended beyond thegreenhouses, and the later aspects of the site as a botanical garden, ascontemplated by the Columbian Institute and on the same groundwhich it had occupied, had been started. 1A popular catalogue of the extraordinary curiosities in the National Institute, arrangedin the building belonging to the Patent Office, by Alfred Hunter, 1854 and 1855, pp.G4-70.
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