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NEW botanical gardens, attached to the Armenian Branch of the Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R., were recently opened in Erivan, capital of the Soviet republic of Armenia. The gardens, which have some three thousand species of plants, have grown up during the course of five years on the dry, stony, desert soil between the settlements of Avan and Kanaker, near Erivan, which has been reclaimed. One of the most interesting departments of the gardens is the section devoted to the plants of Armenia. Ultimately, some 2,600 specimens of the flora of this republic will be collected there; the section already has 350 specimens. In the centre of this section has been built a pond, resembling the high mountain lake of Sevan. In the pond have been planted specimens of water plants of Armenia. In the southern part of the gardens the Geographical Department is concentrated. More than half the area of the gardens is occupied by arboreal plants. The flower gardens are exceptionally rich; in the Avenue of Roses and Fountains more than a hundred varieties of roses have been planted.
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New Russian Botanical Gardens. Nature 147, 55 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147055b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/147055b0