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Show Botanical Gardens It is very likely the .lardin des I'lantes, Paris, has the largest collec tion of living plants. The catalogue of this institution enumerates more than 20.0(10 species. The .lardin was fotincled In 1035 by a physician to Iiuis XIII, and occupies about 75 acres. Kew gardens, the royal botanical botani-cal gardens near London, which has its branches in every English colony, is not far behind. The largest In this country are probably the Missouri Botanical garden, St. Louis, nnd the New York Botanical garden, the I'.mnx. |