New Jersey as a colony and as a state, one of the original thirteen . ses of a BotanicalGarden. Michaux, who was an alien and unableto hold land except by express act of the Legisla-ture, according to the preamble of the statutepiadbeen ** employed for several Years in the Investi-gation of natural Curiosities in Persia and otherParts of Asia. Commissioned by the King ofFrance to travel through the United States and^* establish a botanical Intercourse and Corre-spondence between France and the new repub-lic, Michaux was fully empowered to obtain fromFrance, at the expense of the King, any Tree
New Jersey as a colony and as a state, one of the original thirteen . ses of a BotanicalGarden. Michaux, who was an alien and unableto hold land except by express act of the Legisla-ture, according to the preamble of the statutepiadbeen ** employed for several Years in the Investi-gation of natural Curiosities in Persia and otherParts of Asia. Commissioned by the King ofFrance to travel through the United States and^* establish a botanical Intercourse and Corre-spondence between France and the new repub-lic, Michaux was fully empowered to obtain fromFrance, at the expense of the King, any Tree,Plant, or Vegetable that may be wanting in theUnited States, and to send in exchange * all theCuriosities which may serve to extend botanicalKnowledge and increase the Enjoyments of theGifts of Nature. Michaux desired to establish* near Bergen a botanical garden of about thirtyacres in order to make useful experiments withEespect to Agriculture and Gardening, intend-ing, at that point, ** to make a Depository not onlyof French and American Plants, but of all other. ONY AND AS A STATE 319 Productions of the World, which may be drawnfrom the Kings Garden at Paris. It was in 1855 that the Legislature passed anact directly promoting the agricultural interestsof the State, while in 1840 the New Jersey StateAgricultural Society was incorporated. In 1873the State board of agriculture was organized, itsmembership including representatives of all agri-cultural and horticultural societies, farmersclubs, granges of the Patrons of Husbandry, andother agricultural associations. In the same yearthe State grange was founded, while the StateHorticultural Society came into existence in elaborate investigations and excellent re-ports, the State board of agriculture has extended,since 1890, its scope of influence by the organiza-tion of what are termed Farmers institutes. Inaddition to these the county boards of agriculture,which are auxiliary to the State board and arepeculiar to the
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