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Section. There are some 200 or more horticultural varieties of 
the Lilac in this collection. The wild species of Lilac (the genus 
Syringa) may be found with their botanical relatives in the Olive 
Family, in the southern part of the General Systematic Section. 
West of the Lilac Triangle is the site of the Economic Garden. 
See the foot note on page 159. 
Rose Garden 
After viewing the Lilacs it will be best to pass northward to- 
ward the Museum embankment and enter the Rose Garden at one 
of the north gates. 
This garden, enclosed by pavilion, pergolas, and trellis fence, 
was designed both as to structures and planting plan, by Mr. 
Harold A. Caparn, consulting landscape architect of the Botanic 
Garden. It is 500 feet in greatest length, and 93 feet in width. 
It was made possible by a gift from Mr. and Mrs. Walter V. Cran- 
ford, of Greenwich, Conn., and was constructed and the first 
planting done in 1927 under the supervision of Mr. Montague 
Free, horticulturist of the Botanic Garden. It was first opened to 
Members of the Botanic Garden on Thursday, June 21, 1928, and 
to the general public on the following afternoon. 
The garden contains about 3,000 plants (bush roses, climbers, 
post-roses, standards, festoons, ete.). The three most important 
classes of horticultural roses are in the beds, the Hybrid Teas in 
the two side-beds and the Hybrid Perpetuals with Dwarf Poly- 
antha roses (introduced as “ Baby Ramblers,” though they do 
not ramble) as a border in the central beds. e bush roses in 
the beds are arranged so that one passes from the older varieties 
in the northern beds past successively newer forms to the latest 
introductions in‘the southern beds, thus illustrating the historical 
development of the horticultural varieties of roses. 
The trellis fence is intended not merely for an enclosure and 
protection to the garden, but for the display of climbing roses, as a 
background for the bush roses of all kinds, and especially for the 
species or wild roses, together with the classes of garden roses 
(Rugosas, Lambertianas, etc.) most nearly related to them. 
Near the right (West), as one leaves the south gate of the 
Rose Garden, is Exit No. 6 (Middle Flatbush Ave. gate). 
