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2. Conservatory Trips 



liconoinic plants 



Plant propagaticMi 



Variation and evolution 



Plant specialization in relation to habitat 



3. Outdoor Trips in the Botanic Garden (May through November 



only) 



Spring wild flowers 



Fall w^ild flowers and fruits 



Common broad-leaved trees 



Common evergreen trees 



Garden flowers or Iruits 



Gardens within a garden: tlie ])lan of the I'rooklyn Botanic 



Garden 

 Story of flowering i)lant development (trip through the 



Systematic Section) 

 Plant societies (trij:) through Local Flora Area) 

 Boulders in the ]]rooklyn Botanic Garden (Glacial history 



of the Long Island region). This trip is offered for any 



month of the year. 

 //// classes iiiiisl be aceiniifanicd by their own tcacJicrs. 



As a result of this circular, classes from eleven different high 

 schools, totalling nearly 1000 pu])ils (956), visited the Garden for 

 lectures and trips — this in s])ite of the facts that the time schedules 

 for high school work and the distance of many of the schools 

 from the Garden make planned group visits a very difficult j^rob- 

 lem. The following High Schools sent groups to the (jarden lor 

 instruction : 



Abraham Lincoln Erasmus Hall 



Alexander Hamilton Franklin K. Lane 



Bayside Girls Commercial 



Bishop Loughlin Atemorial Haaren 



Brooklyn High School for llnmemaking High School of Music and Art 



Curtis (Slaten Island) 



The tri]) of die Abraham Lincoln High School ptipils (Dr. 

 Lloyd A. Ivider, Chairman, Biology Department) might serve as 

 a model for that kind of work. The staff" of the biology depart- 

 ment visited the Garden about two weeks l)efore the trip was to 

 be held, and after a conference with me, made a tour of the 



