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The Medicinal Plants and the Poisonous Plants occupy the re- 
mainder of the garden. There are approximately 56 culinary 
plants in the garden, 87 medicinal herbs, 15 medicinal trees and 
shrubs, and 10 poisonous plants, in addition to some of the medici- 
nal plants which are also poisonous. 
The Medicinal Plants were chosen by a national committee of 
physicians and pharmacists, and the culinary plants by a national 
committee representing the Horticultural Society of New York, 
The Garden Club of America, the Herb Society of America, the 
Woman's National Farm and Garden Association, and the Fed- 
erated Garden Clubs of New York State. 
‘he Italian Wellhead, at the east end of the Garden, was pre- 
viously on the private place of Mr. A. Augustus Healy, former 
It has been placed in the 
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president of the Board of Trustees. 
Jotanic Garden on indefinite loan from the Brooklyn Museum. 
A full account of this Herb Garden may be found in Brooklyn 
Botanic Garden Leaflets, Series XXV, No. 2-4. This Leaflet is 
on sale at the Laboratory Building for five cents a copy. 
JAPANESE GARDEN 
This garden is a Niwa or landscape garden, and was made pos- 
sible in 1914 bya generous gift from Mr. Alfred T. White. — It 
was designed by Mr. T. Shiota, a Japanese landscape architect, 
and constructed largely by Japanese workmen, under his super- 
vision. It has since been maintained, in part, by Japanese gar- 
deners and at private expense, under the general supervision of Miss 
Mary Averill, honorary curator of Japanese gardening and floral 
art. Constructed in 1915, this was, so far as can be ascertained, 
the first Japanese garden in a public park east of San Francisco, 
where there is a Japanese Garden, in Golden Gate Park, that 
antedates the one in Brooklyn. 
There is not space here to explain the Garden, except to em- 
phasize the fact that a Japanese Niwa Garden is not a flower gar- 
den, but an attempt to represent, on a small scale, a landscape. 
The plants are not confined to Japanese species, but the Japanese 
gardener uses any material that will insure the best results in the 
given locality. The structure standing in the water isa Tori (pro- 
nounced toreé), serving as a gateway to the /nari “Shrine, which 
