149 

 Land $6,500,c 



Total 



PLANTATIONS 



1. Systematic Section, comprising trees, shrubs, and herba- 

 ceous plants (chiefly those not found in the Local Flora area), 

 grouped according to Orders and Families, and well labeled. 

 Area about 14 acres. 



2. Native Wild Flower Garden (Local Flora Section), com- 

 prising woody and herbaceous piano, growing wild within a radius 

 of approximately too miles of Brooklyn. 



3. Ecologic Garden, including a swamp and portion of a brook, 

 and illustrating the relation of plants to various factors of en- 

 vironment, such as water, li^ht. gravity, soil, insects, other plants. 



4. Rock Garden, of about 12.000 square feet, containing nearly 

 1. 000 species of Alpine and saxitile plants. This was the first rock- 

 garden in a public park in America. 



5. Japanese Garden, of about one quarter of an acre, designed 

 and constructed by Japanese, ddiis. also, was the first Japanese 

 Garden in a public park in America east of the Rocky Mountains. 



6. Rose Garden, 500 feet long and 93 feet wide, enclosed by 

 pavilion, pergolas, and trellis fence, and containing about 3,000 

 rose plants, arranged to show the historical development of the 

 horticultural varieties. 



7. Iris Garden, extending along either bank of the brook for 

 about 400 feet, and including beds of Iris in other parts of the 

 Botanic Garden. 



8. Water Gardens, including East Indian Lotus {X dumbo) 

 Waterlilies, Gattails, and other water plants in the Lake and 

 Brook; and two Waterlily Pools, each 95.5 feet long by 30.5 feet 

 wide, one containing about 20 hardy species and varieties, and the 

 other about 35 tender sorts (41 plants), including I'ictoria rcgia 

 Tnckcri), growing in water that is heated in spring and early 



