JOURNAL 
The New York Botanical Garden 
Vou. I. APRIL, 1900. No. 4. 
THE PLANTATIONS. 
The principal areas which have already been more or less 
developed for the cultivation of plants have been designated as 
e 
that is plants which are grown from seed each year, or such as 
die down to the ground every fall ; (2) the fruticetum, devoted to 
are contained the trees, ther than willows, poplars and conifers ; 
(5) the ga devoted to the Bacto of the conifers, 
such as the pine, spruce and y ) the viticetum, in whic 
will be collected all hardy vines, ae and creepers ; (7) the 
deta border, which serves the purpose of a supplementary 
nursery, a screen, and a horticultural display of shrubs, trees and 
herbs ; and (8) the nurseries, in which duplicates and plants too 
ung to be at once set out in the other plantations are culti- 
vated, and experimental work is prosecuted. 
n all of these omens excepting the boundary border and 
nurseries, the plants are systematically arranged, that is the 
species are gro nen in families, and these fo a the sequence 
adopted in Engler & Prantl’s “ Natirlichen Pflanzenfamilien,” th 
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nati 
These features give the plantations much economic and eutiew 
tional value, and will be of great benefit to the students of bot- 
any, especially in and around New York City, as the living plants 
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