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Bordering the west walk of the Horticultural Section is 
THe Watt GARDEN 
The Wall Garden was completed, ready for planting, during 
1934 by the CWA (Civil Works Administration), one of the 
numerous predecessors of the present WPA (Works Progress 
Administration). Back of the surface wall is a reinforced con- 
crete wall that serves to hold the embankment. Between the two 
walls is a layer of topsoil, and the stones of the surface wall are 
laid with topsoil between, as in all wall gardens. A concealed 
irrigation pipe runs along the top of the wall. Small glacial boul- 
ders were used (with other stones) because they happened to be 
uncovered in plentiful quantity during grading operations. The 
total length of the Wall Garden is about 380 feet. Planting was 
begun in 1934. So far as we can ascertain, this was the first ex- 
ample of a wall garden in a public park or garden in the United 
States. It was designed by our landscape architect, Mr. Harold 
A. Caparn, and constructed under his general supervision. It 
was planted by our own men under the supervision of our horti- 
culturist, Mr. Montague Free. 
Southwest of the Horticultural Section is the 
Native Witp FLower GARDEN (LocaL Frora SEcTION) 
The entrance to the Native Wild Flower Garden or Local Flora 
Section is west of Lilac Triangle. When this area was first being 
cultivated for planting (in 1911), the plow ran into an old curb- 
stone; this, and other evidences, revealed that a street had pre- 
viously crossed at this point in a general east-west direction. 
This section occupies about two acres on the slopes of the termi- 
nal moraine which runs the length of Long Island. It is devoted 
to plants growing wild within a hundred miles of New York, the 
“ Local Flora Range” of the Torrey Botanical Club. On a small 
scale various environments are represented illustrating soil differ- 
entiation and geographic restriction of species in the area, i.e. the 
plants are arranged on an ecological basis. Perhaps of most in- 
terest in the bog—with cranberries, pitcher-plants, sundews, 
bog orchids, and a border of white cedar (Chamaecyparis), larch, 
and spruce. It is a large, irregular, concrete basin filled with peat, 
