Brooklyn Botanic Garden Record 



VOL. xxviii July, i')3y no. .? 



THE ROSE GARDEN OF THE BROOKLYN 

 BOTANIC GARDEN! 



By Moxt.vgue Free 



This Rose Crarden was made possible throu^jh the generosity 

 of Mr. and Mrs. WaUer \\ Cranford, former residents of Brook- 

 lyn. The design was prej^ared by Mr. Harold A. Caparn, Con- 

 sulting Landscape Architect of the Botanic Crarden. Work on 

 the necessary grading was started about the middle of June, 

 1927. In the fall, nearly one thousand rose plants were set out 

 and in the following spring two thousand additional bushes were 

 planted. The garden now contains more than three thousand 

 roses in about six hundred and fifty species and varieties. Where 

 shade conditions are such as to be unsuitable for the growth of 

 roses, rhododendrons and plants of a similar nature are used. 



Flax of thI'; Garden 



The Rose (iarden, 500 feet long and 93 feet wide, occupying 

 an area of about one acre west of the Esplanade, is enclosed by 

 a Doric pergola at the north end and by a wooden trellis sup- 

 ported on concrete posts on the other sides. Towards the south 

 end of the garden a rectangular mound extending across almost 

 the whole width of the garden provides a vantage point from 

 which to view the garden as a whole. Surmounting this eleva- 

 tion is a lattice-work pavilion supported by concrete posts and 

 wooden Doric columns, and two short pergolas connect the 

 pavilion with the east and west entrance gates. North of the 

 pavilion the garden forms a rectangle, 353 feet long and 93 feet 



' (rUlDE No. 9. To follow this guide in the Rose Oarden, one should begin 

 at the northwest corner. 



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