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last Saturday, I saw two little girls wantonly tearing off great 
bunches of the flowering phlox that the city had carefully nur- 
tured for us all to enjoy together 
They were hurting the bushes, saa stealing the flowers. I say 
‘stealing’? because no one person has any right to take and keep 
for himself the things that belong to all of us together. 
If any of you, my boys and girls, see anyone devastating the 
people’s garden, I want you to be good citizens, and go right up 
to them and make them stop. 
If they will not obey you, tell them that you will call a gar- 
dener ; and, if that does no good, call one. 
It is your duty to the city of New York. 
—TuHE Bronx Homr News, Friday, July 31, 1908. 
A COLLECTION OF VINES. 
The recent labelling of the collection, and the construction of 
adjacent paths, has practically made available to the public the 
Sona installed and interesting collection of vines. The 
secluded nature of its position, and lack of comprehensive labels, 
has tended to obscure a plantation that has developed into one of 
the most picturesque features in the Garden. 
The Viticetum is just west of the border of the Hemlock 
Forest, and winds for about three hundred feet along the ridge 
to the east of the Economic Garden. At present the collection 
consists of thirteen families, seventeen genera, and thirty-four 
species, represented by about seventy specimens. The plants 
are supported by a substantial arbor of rough-hewn logs, and 
there is a pathway underneath so that people may walk from one 
end to the other. The vines are planted along both sides of the 
arbor and some of them have already run wild over the top. 
During the spring and summer the walk underneath is a beauti- 
fully shaded cloister with a charming vista looking down into 
the hemlock woods. 
Beginning at the southerly end, one of the first of the larger 
plants is the Dutchman’s pipe of the eastern states, belonging to 
