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viduals. The Botanic Garden is rapidly coming to be recognized 
as an invaluable educational institution in Brooklyn, and the 
objects listed above are more appropriately provided by private 
funds than by public taxation. Copies of the Annual Reports, 
and of the Booklet of Information about the organization and 
activities of the Garden may be had for the asking. The Director 
will be glad to confer personally or to correspond with any one 
concerning any of the above items. . 
PLAN OF FURTHER DEVELOPMENT 
The following outline of plans for the further development 
of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden in the immediate future is re- 
printed from a circular issued last spring over the names of the 
president of the Institute, the chairman of the Botanic Garden 
governing committee, the chairman of the Woman’s Auxiliary, 
and the director of the Garden. It is reprinted here for pur- 
pose of record, and also for wider publicity. 
ProGRAM OF DEVELOPMENT 
To complete the grading, initial planting, and general layout of nearly 
o maintain the rock-garden. This garden, constru in 1916, with 
funds sae in part by the City and in part by os ee is the only 
rock-garden in any public park in Greater New York. 
3. To enlarge our collection of native wild flowers. The local flora sec- 
tion of the Botanic Garden now has growing between 800 and 900 species, 
native within 100 miles of Brooklyn. It is desired to exhibit larger groups 
of each species now in the collection, and to add all other species that can 
be made to grow in the habitat of the Garden 
4. To extend the purely ornamental planting, and other ornamental 
treatment of our grounds. 
5. To enlarge the lilac collection and install other special collections. 
The lilac collection contains at present about 130 varieties. This number 
‘may be more than doubled 
6. To build up our collection of tropical and sub-tropical plants in the 
conservatories, and to extend our general systematic collection of herbs, 
shrubs, and trees not native within 100 miles of Brooklyn 
To maintain our Japanese garden. This garden, pronounced by com- 
petent critics, both Japanese and American, to be unsurpassed in America, 
was constructed entirely with private funds at a cost of over $11 
