This section is from the book "The Gardener's Monthly And Horticulturist V21", by Thomas Meehan. See also: Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long.
An enumeration has recently been made of the plants in the Cambridge Botanical Garden,by Mr. William Falconer, the curator, with the following results: 1,519 genera, all told; 5,901 species, all told; hardy, 3,641; tender,2,2C0. Among these are 247 species of Orchids; 387 species of Ferns; 583 Cacti and other succulent plants; 42 Selaginellas; 36 Bromeliads; 46 Palms; and 430 hardy trees and shrubs, together with 112 half hardy ones, as Ancuba, Cupressus and Hollies, and exceptionally small ones, as Erica, Arctostaphylus and the like.
 
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