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The central feature of the Horticultural Section is a grass panel 
—the “ Long Green ”—60 feet wide and more than 400 feet long 
from north to south. Two curved stone seats and two double 
columns, with a water basin and fountain between, are planned 
for each end of this green. At intervals of about 80 feet, ten 
pergolas (five on each side) have been erected and planted with 
wisteria and other climbers. Bordering the Long Green on each 
side are plantings of perennial herbs in a 12-foot strip, with a 
background of trees and shrubs. Grass aisles pass between and 
underneath the pergolas on each side, and the entire planted and 
grass area 1s bordered by paved walks to carry the larger part of 
the traffic. The first seeding of the lawn on the Horticultural 
Section was on September 10. 
Lhe Wall Garden.—In the preceding report mention was made 
of the Wall Garden along the Reservoir Embankment. ‘The initial 
planting of this “ Garden” is recorded in the appended report of 
the Horticulturist, who planned it. The unusual prolongation of 
warm weather, until the first half of November, gave a long grow- 
ing season, and the Wall Garden perennials were very well estab- 
lished before winter. 
Constructional Work. 
the Reservoir bank, with flights of stone steps at each end, were 
These have been relaid with WPA 
and- 
— 
Two walks along the upper slope of 

constructed several years ago. 
labor. They afford an advantageous place for viewing the 
scaping below, and, as soon as funds become available, seats should 
— 
he constructed along the uppermost walk. This affords an ad- 
nurable opportunity for gifts. 
Medicinal Plant) Garden—A_ garden 
for centuries been a feature of botanic gardens. Some of the 
ens, such, for example, as that at Chelsea, 
In fact, the science 
f medicinal plants has 
— 
earlier botanic gar¢ 
England, were chiefly gardens of “ simples. 
of botany in certain of its aspects, as is well known, developed 
” 
from the study of plants as sources of medicine, and only gradually 
became a discipline separate from materia medica and pharmacy. 
Many plants are still in use as medicine or as sources of medicine. 
means dried plant. A medicinal plant 
The very word “ drug” 
garden, therefore, has historical reasons for inclusion as a part of 
a botanic garden, and we are assured by physicians in active prac- 
