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each side of the "long green," ten pergolas — five on each side — 

 have been erected and these have already been planted with 

 Wistaria and other climbers. Bordering each side of the grass 

 panel are to be plantings of perennial herbs in a strip about 12 

 feet wide. These flowers will furnish masses of color during the 

 growing season, and will have for a background a "story" of 

 shrubs, with another story in the rear of taller shrubs and trees. 

 A notable feature which is linked up with this new horticul- 

 tural garden is the "wall garden," about 385 feet in length along 

 the walk on the west side, leading to Eastern Parkway. A wall 

 laid in concrete to hold up the reservoir embankment has been 

 faced with boulders and angular stones laid in rich earth, thus 

 affording numerous chinks and crevices in which have been 

 planted a large variety of rock-loving plants. The result, after a 

 season's growth, is striking. Instead of a bare rock wall, one sees 

 tiers of a large variety of rock plants .well established, each 

 framed by its particular rocks. This wall garden averages about 

 6 feet high, and the visitor, as he passes along, can examine with 

 ease the different plants — in many cases without even bending 

 his head. Species of Dianthus, such as deltoides and caesius, 

 have done particularly well here this season, also species of 

 Cerastium, such as Btebersteinii, Thomasii, and tomentosum. 

 Other well known rock plants growing here are Ajuga reptans, 

 Linum perenne, Linaria pilosa, Tunica saxifraga, species of 

 Potentilla, Thymus serpyllum and lanuginosum, Armeria mari- 

 tima, Sedum acre and album, Gypsophila repens and Campanula 

 carpatica and rotundifolia. This wall garden has the distinction 

 of being one of the few wall gardens in existence in any public 

 park in America. 



The American Journal of Botany has been published for the 

 past 22 years jointly by the Botanical Society of America and 

 the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. A new arrangement has been 

 made so that after the first of 1936 it will be published entirely 

 by the Botanical Society. 



At the annual meeting and dinner of the New York Academy 

 of Sciences and Affiliated Societies held at the American Mu- 

 seum of Natural History on December 16 the retiring president, 

 Dr. Marshall A. Howe, gave an illustrated address on "Plants 

 that form reefs and islands." 



