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BOTANIC GARDENS.
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were seen to be of secondary importance, and were soon thrown aside in the effort to establish a natural system of classification.”
At the time of this “renaissance” of botany the gardens represented the ideas of geographical distribution and classification
The Botanic Institute at Leipsic showing Entrance from Garden, and Glass Compartment for Use in Experiments with Living Plants. After a photograph. Reproduced by permission from the Minnesota Magazine, vol. ii No. I. 1895.
in addition to the practical aspects of the subject. With the development of physiology and morphology the ideas thus brought into prominence have found expression in the gardens, and the
