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Children’s Garden. 
. Shakespeare Garden. 
. Horticultural Garden. 
. Experimental Garden. 
13. Nursery. 
As noted under Docentry, arrangements may be made for view- 
ing the plantations under guidance. They are open free to the 
public daily from 8 a.m. until dusk; on Sundays and holidays from 
10 a.m. until dusk. 
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Conservatories 
The Garden conservatories contain a collection of tender and 
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 
north and south Africa, date palm, coconut palm, chocolate tree, 
coffee, tea, ginger, bamboo, mahogany, balsa, cocaine plant, black 
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. 
The Conservatories are open April 1 to October 31, 10 a.m.— 
4:30 p.m. (Sundays, 2-4 :30).; November 1 to VWiarcheaie Ord. 
4 p.m. (Sundays 2-4). 
Herbarium 
The Garden herbarium consists at present of about 188,300 
specimens, including phanerogams, ferns, mosses, liverworts, 
lichens, parasitic and other fungi, algae, and myxomycetes. This 
collection may be consulted from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. by those inter- 
ested, and specimens submitted will be gladly identified. 
