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There is a good sized laboratory for taxonomy.
There is also a large "museum", in part semi-popular, - with wood sections, fruits, products,etc. Dr. Diels said that this is kept up for popular use largely, as they must please those who furnish the money!
There are cases that show tree-truck, root, fruit, leaves, parasites, etc. - Also picture of tree.
He suggested that five large plant pictures could be purchased from [[Nene?]] Photographischen Gesellschaft Berlin - Steglitz.
Also colored scenes of mountains, etc., from:
Nenker & Uslermeier
Dresden.

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We then took a stroll about the gardens, giving chief attention to the prarie section. This is badly confused, plants from the [[insertion]] ^ dry [[/insertion]] plains being mixed with those of the prairie.
The beds lack altogether the aspect of the prairie. Many of the plants are in the wrong relation: [[underlined]] rhus glabra [[/underlined]] with plants of open prairie, [[underlined]] Heliopsis [[underlined]] (not [[Habu?]]) in the open ( where it is not doing well); etc.
Altogether the aspect is more nearly that of some of the tangled prairie borders.
I agreed to send seeds, with detailed descriptions of habitats, and with notes on the grouping of prairie plants in dry and wetter situations, on loess, sand, etc.
This was a fine visit.