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garden plants, and with importations of herbs limited at a time 
when foods require more careful seasoning, there has been a great 
revival in interest in herb gardens. Miss Elizabeth Remsen 
Van Brunt is Honorary Curator of Culinary Herbs. 
The Medicinal Plant Garden is a realization of plans made 
when the Garden was founded to include such plants. Their 1m- 
portance in modern medicine is still great in spite of encroachment 
by synthetic chemicals, and their display is of interest not only to 
the nurses who have formal class instruction at the Garden re- 
garding their appearance and use, but to all who seek to increase 
their botanical knowledge. 
In a secluded spot among the pines on the shore of the lake may 
be found the beautiful bronze tablet, designed by Daniel Chester 
French, and presented to the Garden in 1923 by a committee of 
citizens as a memorial in recognition of Mr. White’s outstanding 
public services, of which the Botanic Garden was only one example. 
One of the most formal plantations of the Garden is the recently 
established Horticultural Section, in which is featured the Dean 
Clay Osborne Memorial, which was presented in 1939 by Mrs. 
Sade Elisabeth Osborne in memory of her husband. The me- 
morial includes a fountain, water basin, seats and columns designed 
by the Garden’s consulting architect, Mr. Harold A. Caparn, and 
placed in a setting of trees and shrubs of the more common horti- 
cultural varieties. Carved in the base of the Indiana limestone 
columns is a design of unusual beauty of ginkgo leaves and seeds. 
The arbors of this section of the Garden, on which vines are 
trained, afford a good example of Dr. Gager’s statement that at 
the Brooklyn Botanic Garden “‘an endeavor is made not only to 
exhibit plants as botanical specimens, but also to show how 
the plants... may be used in decorative planting.” In the 
spring, the Wall Garden, with its colorful rock plants, which marks 
one boundary of the horticultural plantation, is a feature, 
Adding to the interest of the trees at the Garden are those which 
have been planted by outstanding botanists or friends of the Gar- 
den. The first trees to be so honored were a sweet-gum plantec 
by the famous botanist Hugo deVries, September 12, 1912, and 
a tulip tree planted October 16, 1913, by Adolf Engler, world- 
renowned systematic botanist, while on visits to the Garden. At 
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