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After many years of lobbying the Irish parliament by the Royal Dublin Society, a botanical garden was finally established in 1795 on 16 Irish acres of ground in Glasnevin, Dublin. Over the next half-century plans were executed to develop a prestige scientific garden in the city. Promoting both botany and agriculture, the gardens developed indoor and outdoor collections and the arboretum formed an important element in the overall design of the gardens. The collections were ordered in a manner that would expose the science of botany as well as present a visually pleasing arrangement of botanical material. Central to the ordering of displays was a concern with classification, naming and labelling. There were debates over the efficacy of particular classificatory systems as well as the accuracy of naming individual plants and the provision of material labels. A collection without labels could easily become a collection without order and thus a scientific garden could quickly be rendered a pleasure or unscientific garden. In this paper some of the debates about the significance of labels, planting regimes, and names will be analysed with a view to exposing how the search for order was a finely balanced process that was regularly confronted by the vicissitudes of human agency, design preferences and 'natural' conditions.