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where many of the visitors, especially among the children, have never 

 seen the common food-plants outside of a grocery store, and have never 

 seen any of the fiber and medicinal plants at all. 



Aside from the labeled plantations, which in reality constitute an 

 out-of-doors museum, and the conservatory collection, no museum will 

 be developed in connection with the garden. The close proximity of 

 the Central Museum building of The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and 

 Sciences makes a separate static exhibit by the garden unnecessary, for 

 the plans of the museum include an extensive botanical section. 



On account of the ample facilities already offered in Greater iSTew 



Fig. S. Economic Section of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. The first two 

 rows of beds contain food and fodder plants ; the third row, medicinal plants ; the 

 fourth row, condiments and relishes ; the fifth row, fiber plants. August 14, 1911. 



York for work in systematic botany, no attempt will be made to develop 

 a systematic center at the Brooklyn Garden. Only such a herbarium 

 will be assembled as represents the local flora, as the needs of other 

 departments indicate, and as the proper naming and labeling of the 

 collections makes necessary. Investigations will be confined to other 

 subdivisions of the science than taxonomy, such as physiology, pathol- 

 ogy, morpholog}', experimental evolution and phases of economic botany. 

 Annual city appropriations for the maintenance of such an institu- 

 tion as a botanic garden are, of course, justified only by the service 

 which the garden can render to the city. In this connection it may be 

 stated that it was the wish of those instrumental in securing the estab- 



