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Title: Establishment of a National Botanical Garden : hearing before a Joint Committee on the Library, Congress of the 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
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Library United States Botanic Garden
Subjects: Botanical gardens
Publisher: Washington : G.P.O.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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. The whole area contains about 476 acres. About 109 acres of itis to be acquired for the Anacostia Park reclamation, so that onlyabout 367 acres need to be considered for purchase in connection withthis project. It is on the main highway line between Baltimore andWashington. The Lincoln Highway, with little difficulty, could bebrought along the shores of the Anacostia Park and thence by wayof Maryland Avenue to the Capitol Building, affording an entranceto Washington of unequaled beauty. As to accessibility, there isalready an electric car line along the Bladensburg Road, and thejunction of the Pennsylvania and Baltimore & Ohio Railroads isonly about 2,000 feet away, while the Pennsylvania Railroad is about800 feet from the excellent possible sites for the greenhouses and theherbaceous gardens. For extension of the gardens the Anacostia Park is available.That portion of the park between the Pennsylvania Railroad andBenninsr Bridge contains about 563 acres, lowland and water, thus
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66—1 ESTABLISHMENT OF A NATIONAL BOTANIC GARDEN. 67 furnishing ample opportunity for expansion on land not subject tooverflow for lowland and fresh-water exhibits. If in the future there should be added to this area that portion ofthe Anacostia Park between Benning Bridge and the PennsylvaniaBridge, there would be an addition of another 398 acres, includingland and water, which could be used in connection with the proposedgarden. This extension into the Anacostia Water Park would affordunlimited opportunity for beautiful aquatic gardens, with all thepossibilities this implies. It will thus be seen that by extension into the Anacostia Park thisundertaking that has been begun purely as a necessary sanitary meas-ure can be made to so serve the Nation doubly, thus paying largedividends on the capital invested. At the assessors valuation, ac-cording to the latest available data, the cost of the 367 acres in thistract would amount to $254,520.50, which is at the rate of $693.50per acre. I

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