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treat it properly.” Publications: Bulletin (established 1930; an- 
nually). Black Rock Forest Papers (established 1935); quar- 
terly ). 
FLUSHING 
LINNAEAN BoTanic GARDEN (DISCONTINUED) 
Established: 1737. Area: At first 8 acres; later, 80 acres. 
Proprietors: Robert Prince (1737- ); William Prince (?); 
William Robert Prince (?-1869). 
Note: This garden was primarily a nursery. The name “ Lin- 
naean Botanic Garden” was not given it until 1793. The garden, 
from its beginning to its end, was for 130 years conducted by one 
family—through five generations. Here, it is said, were planted 
the first tulips, the first Lombardy poplars, and the first Mahonia 
in America. This appears to have been the first “ botanic garden ”’ 
on Long Island. 
GILBOA 
(Fossir Plant Botanic GARDEN ) 
The Director, State Museum, Albany, New York 
Established: 1927. Area: 80 sq. ft. 
ilboa Fossil Trees. This is a roadside exhibit of specimens 
of fossil tree stumps near the spot where they were taken from 
the rocks at Gilboa, in the Catskill Mountains, Schoharie County, 
New York State, U.S. A. The group is just within a fence and 
can be plainly seen from passing automobiles. A large-lettered 
label can easily be read from a car standing in the road. The 
stumps are set in a cement base thick enough to be unaffected by 
the action of frost. The fossil forests of Gilboa are of Upper 
Devonian age. 
This exhibit was installed by the New York State Museum 
(Albany, N. Y.) through the cooperation of the New York City 
Board of Water Supply in the spring of 1927. According to a 
statement of the Museum, ‘“ These Gilboa trees in general must 
have resembled the tree ferns of the tropics today, and also of 
the ancient Carboniferous and Upper Devonian Times. They 
do not, however, belong to this group, but were higher types— 
seed ferns | Pteridosperms].” 
