BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN RECORD 
VOL. XXXI JULY, 1942 No. 3 
TA OC ME SibOkAy SECTION 4ONAIVE. Wisp) 
FLOWER GARDEN) 
OF THE 
BROOKMEVN BOTANIC GARDEN 
GuIDE No. 14 
By Henry K. SvENSON 
This “Garden within a Garden,” begun in the spring of 1911, 
now has approximately five hundred species represented. The 
present reconstruction upon an ecological basis was started in 1931. 
Only those plants have been introduced which occur wild within 
approximately 100 miles of the City, an area representing the range 
of the Torrey Botanical Club; such [European importations as the 
dandelion (two species), the white daisy, buttercups, and clover, and 
such other exotics as the burdock, pigweed, and chickweed are not 
intentionally grown in this area. Our section occupies about two 
acres on the southern slope of the terminal glacial moraine which 
runs the length of Long Island, and possibly a fragment of the 
“flat woods” of the outwash plain which extends southward to the 
ocean and which gave the [English name of Flatbush to the Dutch 
village previously known as Midwout (Middlewoods). As early 
as the Battle of Long Island, which took place in 1776 on these 
same hulls, the trees had been cut off; but fragments of the forest, 
still to be found to the eastward, in Queens County, show a vegeta- 
tion much richer than that of other parts of Long Island. Enor- 
mous red oaks and tulip trees (Liriodendron) towered over the un- 
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1 The map on the front cover page is of the Torrey Botanical Club range 
—approximately 100 miles radius from New York City. 
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