1José Corrêa da Serra’s Plan for a Botanical Garden, [by 4 August 1820] (Jefferson Papers)
Plan for of a Botanic garden for a public school on the most useful, and Less expensive plan. Almost all the Botanic gardens seem rather destined to increase the catalogue of the species and genera of vegetables, than to furnish to students useful notions of the vegetable kingdom. They are filled with plants which though they may in future times turn useful, do not afford to the student any...