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future planting possible, and considerable grading of both rock 
and earth still has to be done near the west side of the entrance, 
but everything is now prepared for the city Department of High- 
ways to obtain the necessary funds and to proceed with the 
permanent building of the Southern Boulevard from this entrance 
south to the Zoological Park; as this stretch of road is now 
travelled weekly by many thousands of people passing south- 
ward from the Garden to the Zoological Park and vice versa, it 
seems likely that this improvement will soon be made. 
Another entrance from the south at the southern end of the 
partment through the part of Bronx Park lying south of the 
Garden on the west side of the Bronx River, leading southward 
through fields and woods to Pelham Avenue. This path enters 
the Garden among the plots containing the collection of hardy 
ferns, which has recently been materially increased by the gift of 
about two hundred plants representing some ninety kinds, pre- 
sented by Mr. Lowell M. Palmer, of Stamford, Conn. This 
“fern entrance” is in a natural thicket of spice-bush (Benzoin) 
shaded by American elm, sweet birch, butternut and red maple. 
N. L. Britton. 
THE FLOWERING OF A RARE FLORIDA PALM. 
On the keys and the mainland of southern Florida a number 
of palms grow which are found nowhere else. Some of them 
are confined to the keys, and among these is a large tree, at- 
taining a height of some thirty or forty feet. Rumors of the 
existence of an undescribed palm in Florida reached the north, 
Investigation revealed this new palm on Elliott's Key, and at one 
or two other places, but not in great quantity. It was described 
by Herr Wendland, a renowned student of the palms, at that 
time the director of the Herrenhausen Palmgarden at Hanover, 
Germany, who named it Pseudophoentx |Sargentit, the generic 
name suggested by its resemblance to Phoenix, the date palm, 
and the specific name in honor of Professor Sargent, who did 
much to make it known. 
