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E9. Research in Systematic Botany of the Flowering Plants. 
Dr. Gundersen. 
IV. OTHER EDUCATIONAL FEATURES 
Plantations 
The plantations comprise several sections, as follows: 
1. The Local Flora (native wild flower garden). 
2. General Systematic Section (trees, shrubs, and herbaceous 
plants not native within 100 miles of Brooklyn). 
3. Ecological Garden. 
4. Rock Garden. 
_ 9. Children’s Garden. 
6. Japanese Garden, etc. 
As noted under Docentry (p. 4), arrangements may be made 
for viewing the plantations under guidance. They are open free 
to the public daily from 8 a.m. until dark; on Sundays and holi- 
days from 10 a.m. until dark. 
Conservatories 
The Garden conservatories contain a collection of tender and 
tropical plants. Of special interest for teachers of nature study 
and geography are the following useful plants from the tropics 
and subtropics: banana, orange, lemon, lime, kumquat, tamarind, 
West Indian cedar (the source of the wood used for cigar boxes), 
eucalyptus, Manila hemp, sisal, pandanus (source of the fiber used 
for making certain kinds of fiber hats), fig, grape vines from 
north and south Africa, date palm, cocoanut palm, chocolate tree, 
coffee, tea, ginger, bamboo, mahogany, balsa, cocaine plant, black 
pepper, cardamom, olive, pomegranate, logwood, durian, mango, 
sugar cane, avocado (so-called “alligator pear”), West Indian 
and other rubber plants, banyan, religious fig of India, and nu- 
merous others. 
The Conservatories are open April 1 to November 1, 10 am.— 
4:30 p.m. (Sundays, 2-4: 30); November 1 to April 1, 10 am— 
4 p.m. (Sundays, 2-4). 
