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Undeveloped Area 
The entire North Addition, between Mt. Prospect Reservoir 
and the Brooklyn Museum, still remains under the plow on ac- 
count of insufficient labor to grade it and put it into lawn, pre- 
paratory to planting. It is now twelve years since this area was 
brought to its present rough grade. Its frontage on Eastern 
Parkway, the completion of new apartment houses along the 
entire block opposite the Garden, and the great increase in the 
use of the entrance at Eastern Parkway, make it very urgent that 
the area be top-graded and planted, and also that a suitable en- 
trance be constructed at this point. 
Rose Garden 
Figure 4 (p. 20) is reproduced from a colored sketch of 
the proposed Rose Garden, planned by our consulting landscape 
architect, Mr. Harold A. Caparn. This, when realized, would 
be one of the most beautiful and instructive rose gardens 1n 
America. The site chosen for it is the area of approximatety 
one acre, just west of the Esplanade. It is estimated that the 
total cost of grading, soil improvement, construction of arbors, 
planting, etc., would approximate $10,000. The director will be 
glad to show the colored sketch, and explain the details of the 
plan to anyone who may be interested. This garden would un- 
questionably be one of the most popular features of the Botanic 
Garden. 
Herbarium 
The accessions to the Phanerogamic Herbarium have been 678 
specimens and to the Cryptogamic Herbarium 407—a total ot 
1085, as compared to 646, 205, and 851 respectively for 1925. 
The Cryptogamic Herbarium has now grown to the full ca- 
pacity of its present quarters. Further expansion, which is in- 
evitable, will make it necessary to find a more commodious room. 
Library Le ees 
Library accessions totaled 7505 as compared with 7364 a year 
