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THE ADELAIDE BOTANIC GARDEN.—From Dr. Schomburgk's Report on the progress and condition of the Adelaide Botanic Garden and Government Plantations during the year 1874, we gather some facts relating not only to the capabilities of the Garden in an educational point of view, but also with regard to the acclimatisation of new plants, many of which are valuable for their economical products, and others as horticultural novelties. In what is called the class ground 130 natural orders are represented and 750 genera. The plan adopted seems to be similar to that adopted in most botanic gardens, namely, by dividing the orders by strips of turf; the aquatic plants, such as the Nymphæaceæ, Vallisneriæ, Butomaceæ, Alismaceæ, &c.,
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Our Botanical Column . Nature 12, 253 (1875). https://doi.org/10.1038/012253b0
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