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The path along the south shore of the Lake is called the Lake 
Walk. Near the east end of this walk is a Japanese Lantern on a 
small island in the Lake. 
Near the west end of ie walk, on an island at te outlet of the 
lake, is a bronze statue, “/ndian Maid and Fawn,’ by Phimister 
Proctor, presented to the Garden on May 8, 1928, by the late Mr. 
George D. Pratt, of Brooklyn, formerly a member of the Botanic 
Garden Governing Committee. 
The aquatic plant in the Lake, with some of the leaves floating 
and other leaves, together with the waterlily-like flowers, raised 
well above the surface of 
(Nelumbo nucifera). 
the water, is the East Indian Lotus 
Moss RAVINE 
Few botanic gardens have included the mosses, and plants below 
the mosses, in their plantations; and yet these plants are of popu- 
lar interest, and the maintenance of such a collection of living 
plants is an advantage for school and college classes and others 
specially interested in those groups. With this thought in mind 
a reentrant was excavated in the north facing slope of Boulder 
Hill during the winter of 1936-37. This excavation was lined 
with glacial boulders (the only “ native” rock on Long Island), 
“cc , 
and furnished with a “ weeping” pipe for irrigation to keep moist 
the surfaces of the rocks and the soil between the rocks. In the 
spring of 1937 about 25 species of mosses, liverworts, and lichens 
were gradually “ planted ”’ and labeled. Some of these succeed 
much better than others in the dust-, soot-, and gas-laden air of 
the: citys 
Some of the Green Algae have also become established on the 
surface of the soil and rocks. 
LABORATORY PLAZA 
-assing around Boulder Hill to the left, on the asphalt walk and 
over the boulder bridge, one comes to the Magnolia Triangle and 
then to the Laboratory Plaza. The collection of Magnolias is 
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argely within this Plaza. The central motif of the Plaza is The 
