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7. Iris Garden. 
Water Gardens. 
9, Children’s Garden. 
10. Shakespeare Garden. 
Horticultural Garden. 
12. Experimental Garden. 
13. Nursery. 
As noted under Docentry, arrangements may be made for view- 
They are open free to the 
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ing the plantations under guidance. 
public daily from 8 a.m. until dusk; on Sundays and holidays from 
10 a.m. until dusk. 
Conservatories 
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The Garden conservatories contain a collection of tender 
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, kumquat, tamarind, 
West Indian cedar (the source of the wood used for cigar boxes), 
eucalyptus, Manila hemp, sisal, pandanus (source of the fiber used 
for making certain kinds of fiber hats), fig, grapevines from 
ate palm, coconut palm, chocolate tree, 
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coffee, tea, ginger, bamboo, mahogany, balsa, cocaine plant, blac 
pepper, annatto (used in coloring butter and cheese), cardamom, 
olive, pomegranate, logwood, durian, mango, sugar cane, avocado 
(so-called “ alligator pear’), West Indian and other rubber plants, 
banyan, religious fig of India, and numerous others. 
It may be of interest to teachers that the nine extant genera of 
cycads are now represented in House 12. During the year, 
Stangeria parodoxa, from Natal, has been added, thus completing 
the collection. To reach the cycad house take the first door to 
the /cft after entering the central or Economic House and pass 
through to the end house. 
The Conservatories are open April 1 to October 31, 10 a.m.— 
4:30 p.m. (Sundays, 2-4:30) ; November 1 to March 31, 10 a.m— 
4 p.m. (Sundays 2-4), 
Herbarium 
The Garden herbarium consists at present of about 190,000 
ferns, mosses, liverworts, 
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specimens, including phanerogams, 
lichens, parasitic and other fungi, algae, and myxomycetes. 
