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shrubs and herbaceous plants not native within ioo miles of 

 Brooklyn), morphological, ecological, economic, and rock gardens, 

 Japanese garden, and children's gardens. As noted below, under 

 Docentry, 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 holidays 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, citron, kumquat, West 

 Indian cedar (the source of the wood used for cigar boxes), euca- 

 lyptus, 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, camphor, ginger, sugar cane, avocado (so-called "alligator 

 pear"), West Indian and other rubber plants, banyan, religious fig 

 of India, and numerous others. 



The Conservatories are open April I to November i, 10 a.m- 

 4:30 p.m. (Sundays, 2-4:30) ; November 1 to April 1, 10 a.m.- 

 4 p.m. (Sundays, 2-4). 



Herbarium 



The Garden herbarium consists at present of over 180,000 speci- 

 mens, including phanerogams, ferns, mosses, liverworts, lichens, 

 parasitic and other fungi, algae, and myxomycetes. This collec- 

 tion may be consulted from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. by those interested, 

 and specimens submitted will be gladly identified. 



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Library 



The rapidly growing library of the Garden comprises at present 

 over 8,500 volumes and over 6.000 pamphlets. This is not a cir- 

 culating library, but is open free for consultation to all persons 

 from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. (Saturdays, 9 to 12). Over 580 peri- 

 odical publications devoted to botany and closely related subjects 

 are regularly received. 



