Establishment of a National Botanic Garden: Hearings Before a Joint Committee on the Library, United States, Sixty-sixth Congress, Second Session on S. 497, a Bill to Increase the Area of the United States Botanic Garden in the City of Washington, District of Columbia; and S. Res. 165, Directing the Committee on the District of Columbia to Report Plans for the Creation in Or Near the District of Columbia of a Botanic Garden Comparable with the Best Existing Gardens. [May 21, 1920]U.S. Government Printing Office, 1920 |
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... Arboretum region less than a week ago , after a conference with Prof. Sargent with regard to the securing of all the pear seeds which we can get from a Chinese species of pear , which ESTABLISHMENT OF A NATIONAL BOTANIC GARDEN . 15.
... Arboretum region less than a week ago , after a conference with Prof. Sargent with regard to the securing of all the pear seeds which we can get from a Chinese species of pear , which ESTABLISHMENT OF A NATIONAL BOTANIC GARDEN . 15.
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... Arboretum will be extremely valuable because it can furnish authentic seeds of this species . Mr. GOULD . Do most of the pear seeds come from Europe ? Mr. FAIRCHILD . Yes . The CHAIRMAN . Is this Chinese strain immune from blight ? Mr ...
... Arboretum will be extremely valuable because it can furnish authentic seeds of this species . Mr. GOULD . Do most of the pear seeds come from Europe ? Mr. FAIRCHILD . Yes . The CHAIRMAN . Is this Chinese strain immune from blight ? Mr ...
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... arboretum is distributing in the extreme South . Mr. MOORE . Do you distribute to botanical gardens now ? Mr. FAIRCHILD . Extensively . Mr. MOORE . But you have no adequate place in Washington ? Mr. FAIRCHILD . We have a place in ...
... arboretum is distributing in the extreme South . Mr. MOORE . Do you distribute to botanical gardens now ? Mr. FAIRCHILD . Extensively . Mr. MOORE . But you have no adequate place in Washington ? Mr. FAIRCHILD . We have a place in ...
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... Arboretum has its office in the arboretum itself . Bur- bank lives in his garden , and to my mind , one of the greatest diffi- culties in connection with the development of the Department of Agriculture has been the fact that the ...
... Arboretum has its office in the arboretum itself . Bur- bank lives in his garden , and to my mind , one of the greatest diffi- culties in connection with the development of the Department of Agriculture has been the fact that the ...
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... Arboretum at Boston . Lipsky , a Russian scientist , has said , the most valuable one in the world , the one that has done the most , has been the garden at Kew , which is a national institution of Great Britain . I think it is ex ...
... Arboretum at Boston . Lipsky , a Russian scientist , has said , the most valuable one in the world , the one that has done the most , has been the garden at Kew , which is a national institution of Great Britain . I think it is ex ...
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Page 56 - It is hereby ordered that whenever new structures are to be erected in the District of Columbia under the direction of the Federal Government which affect in any important way the appearance of the city, or whenever questions involving matters of art and with which the Federal Government is concerned are to ba determined, final action shall not be taken until such plans and questions have been submitted to the Commission of Fine Arts designated under the act of Congress of May 17, 1910, for comment...
Page 43 - SIR : The Commissioners of the District of Columbia have the honor to submit the following on Senate bill 1750, Sixty-ninth Congress, first session, entitled "A bill to establish a woman's bureau in the Metropolitan police department of the District of Columbia...
Page 56 - The commission shall also advise generally upon questions of art when required to do so by the president, or by any committee of either house of congress.
Page 56 - It shall be the duty of such commission to advise upon the location of statues, fountains, and monuments in the public squares, streets, and parks in the District of Columbia, and upon the selection of models for statues, fountains, and monuments erected under the authority of the United States and upon the selection of artists for the execution of the same.
Page 5 - Resolved, That the Committee on the District of Columbia be, and it is hereby, directed to consider...
Page 56 - Navy, the Chairman of the Committee on the Library of the Senate, and the Chairman of the Committee on the Library of the House of Representatives.
Page 8 - The improvement of the park system of the District of Columbia;" and also any other location which they may deem suitable; and that the Commission of Fine Arts be required to make suggestions in connection with each location as to a memorial suited to it and within the limit of cost authorized by the act; and also the best method of selecting the artists, sculptors...
Page 43 - That the entire amount found to be due and awarded by the jury in said proceedings as damages, for and in respect of the land to be condemned for fltosaid extension plus the costs and expenses of said proceeding, shall be assessed by the jury as benefits...
Page 8 - It was a report made to the Senate by the Senate Committee on the District of Columbia...
Page 56 - Columbia, as well as upon all questions involving matters of art with which the Federal Government is concerned. In addition, the commission advises upon general questions of art whenever requested to do so by the President or any committee of Congress.