BROOKLYN 
BOTANIC GARDEN 
RECORD 
VOL. XX JANUARY, 1931 NO. 1 
REPORT ON A EUROPEAN TRIP OF THE DIRECTOR 
To THE BoTrANic GARDEN GOVERNING COMMITTEE: 
At its meeting on April 22, 1930, the Governing Committee au- 
thorized the director, as a delegate from the Brooklyn Botanic Gar- 
den, to attend the International Horticultural Congress in London, 
August 7-15, and the Fifth International Botanical Congress in 
Cambridge, England, August 16-23. The trip was planned so as 
also to afford opportunity to visit a number of European botanic 
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gardens. 
Leaving New York by S. S. Lapland on Friday p.m., July 11, 
I landed at Cherbourg on Sunday, the 20th, and proceeded via 
Paris to Berne, inspecting the botanic garden there on July 21. 
This garden is located on a sloping terrace overlooking the River 
Aare, and the planting is laid out on the systematic basis. Pro- 
fessor Dr. Ed. Fischer has been the director for over twenty-five 
years. The Botanischer Garten and Botanisches Institut are de- 
partments of the Hochschule Bern and the garden, like our own, 
renders a valuable service to the local schools in the supply of study 
material, and also encourages the visits of classes with their teach- 
ers. The alpine section is an important feature, and the Garden 
has a cooperative agreement with the Alpengarten Schynige Platie 
by the terms of which the former has charge of the scientific and 
horticultural work. Several specimens of Yew (Taxus baccata) 
growing spontaneously in a dry wall and in natural cracks of a 
rock, along the northwest side of the garden are of much interest. 
The trees are many years old, and the sowing of the seeds in the 
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