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are surmounted by carved finials of the conventionalized pine- 
apple type, and a bronze tablet, set on one of the entrance piers, 
of the 
Women’s Auxillary, during the Spring Inspection of Grounds, 
Buildings and Plantations on May 4th, 1922. This tablet 
bears the following inscription: 
THIS ENTRANCE 
AND THE 
ADJOINING FENCE 
NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN 
Through the expenditure of a part of the Special Develop- 
Entrance, where grading and path-building is also being ac- 
complished. 
WATERLILIES AT THE BOTANICAL GARDEN 
the most attractive: of the mid-summer displays is 
house of that Very properly these beautiful nae 
enjoy much ee for since nee earliest historic times thei 
unique flowers have mned art and poetry, and, among ce 
e tw e 
writing at a later date called the white lilies Nymphaea and the 
yellow Nuphar. Linnaeus, however, placed them all under the 
