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The educational object cannot be carried out effectively unless 
the plantations are made as beautiful as possible. The popular 
presentation of the facts and principles of plant life will be im- 
measurably more effective if the garden is a place of beauty, just 
as a lecture on botany is more effective if it has literary value—is 
couched in beautiful language. Not only is beauty itself educative, 
but it enhances the effectiveness of every method of instruction 
along other lines. 
A grouping of flower beds or a massing of shrubbery may serve 
merely to exhibit plants which are of interest to the botanist, but 
it may have little or no artistic merit. Or the arrangement or 
massing of the same materials may be handled in such a way as 
to produce a pleasing effect. This is why it is so important to 
have the constant cooperation of botanist and landscape architect 
in planning and maintaining the plantations of a botanic garden. 
A botanically fascinating collection of plants may be grown in a 
nursery; but a nursery is not a garden, it is a source of materials 
for making a garden. Herein, as the writer has stated elsewhere, 
lies an essential difference between botany (in its restricted sense) 
and horticulture (as a phase of botany) ; for the botanist a garden 
exists for plants; for the horticulturist plants exist for the Baedee 
In laying out the Brooklyn Botanic Garden the aim has been to 
enlist the aid of horticulture and landscape architecture to arouse 
and foster a wider botanical interest in plants. It is gratifying to 
be able to report that this aim is meeting with success, as the con- 
stantly increasing attendance and public interest and educational 
use of the plantations indicate. 
A class in Landscape Architecture from the School of Fine Arts, 
University of Pennsylvania, visited the Garden recently to make 
a study of the various types of landscape design represented in the 
Garden, including the Japanese Garden, Rose Garden, Rock 
Garden, Water Gardens, and other specialized types of garc 
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Increasing Public Appreciation of Parks 
It is encouraging to note the growing appreciation of the value 
of municipal parks on the part of the American public, for a city 
botanic garden incidentally affords some of the advantages of 
park. The National Recreation Association has recently issued 
