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In front of the arches are three beds containing more than 600 
Hybrid Tea Roses. Surrounding the pool, which is the central 
feature, is a wide planting of the rose Clytemnestra. The two 
level plateaus, one at each end of the arc, are for Standard Roses, 
not yet (1940) planted. 
The bronze statuette in the pool, “ The Call of the Sea,” is by 
Harriet Frishmuth; this, and the two Stone Urns, designed by Mr. 
Caparn, were also given by Mrs. Cranford. 
The illustrated guide to the Rose Garden (Guide No. 9), by 
Montague Free, is a treatise on rose species and varieties, with 
seventeen pages devoted to the cultivation and care of roses. This 
is on sale at the Information Booth in the Laboratory Building at 
50 cents a copy. 
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THE EsSpLANADE 
North of the Rose Are the Hsplanade extends to the Museum 
embankment, at the top of which, toward the west, is located the 
Overlook from which may be obtained an excellent view of the 
Rose Garden and the Lilac Triangle. The Esplanade is intended 
to serve as an approach to the Brooklyn Museum when that build- 
ing is completed. The double rows of trees on each side are 
Schwedler’s variety of the Norway maple (Acer platanoides 
Schwedlert). 
Plans have been made for a row of flowering cherries extending 
up each side of the lésplanade, with a path between the cherry rows 
and the maples. 
A Crock or Rourrs 
a. To Wiute Oak Circle 
From the Rose Are one may continue south (see map of 
grounds) to the Ihite Oak Circle, containing a White Oak 
(Quercus alba) planted in 1916 by the late Mr. Alfred T. White, 
a Benefactor and Patron, and * father”’ of the Brooklyn Botanic 
Garden. The bronze ta 
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jet marking this oak reads as follows: 
“A fresh memorial as, each year, 
New Hite and buds and leaves appear; 
A living, monumental tree, 
True type of immortality.” 
