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. E8. Research in Plant Geography and Ecology. — Independent 

 investigation of problems in plant geography and ecology. 



Mr. Taylor, 



OTHER EDUCATIONAL FEATURES 



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Plantations 



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The plantations comprise several sections, including the local 



flora (native wild 



flower garden ) , general 



systematic (trees, 



shrubs and herbaceous plants not native within lOO 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 at lo a. m. 



Conservatories 



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The Garden conservatories contain a collection of tender and 

 tropical plants. Of special interest for teachers of nature study 

 and geography is the economic house, containing useful plants 

 from the tropics and subtropics, including the foUowing: banana, 

 orange, lemon, lime, citron, kumquat, tangelo (a cross between 

 the grape-fruit — ^pomelo — and the tangerine), West Indian cedar 

 (the source of the wood used for cigar boxes), eucalyptus^ Manila 

 hemp, sisal, pandanus (source of the fiber used for making cer- 

 tain kinds of fiber hats), fig, grape vines from north and south 

 Africa, date palm, cocoanut palm, chocolate tree, coffee, tea, cam- 

 phor, ginger, sugar cane, avocado (so-called "alligator pear"), 

 Para and other rubber plants, banyan, religious fig of India, arid 

 numerous others. 



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The conservatories are open daily from lo a. m. to 4 p. m. In 

 this connection see also below, under Docentry, 



Herbarium 



The Garden herbarium consists at present of over 150,000 



specimens 



including 



phanerogams, ferns, mosses, liverworts, 

 lichens, parasitic and other fungi, algse, and myxomycetes. This 



