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7. Weed Section. 



Showing the characters of weeds. 



8. Conventional and Formal Sections. 



a. Japanese Garden. 



b. Rock Garden. 



c. Esplanade. 



d. Laboratory and Conservatory plazas. 



The distinctive feature of the Systematic Section is the plan 

 to combine the fruticetum and the arboretum with the her- 

 baceous garden. The herbaceous plants are arranged by 

 families in beds, and the beds grouped in orders. The beds 

 of each order are surrounded by the shrubs and trees belonging 

 to the same order, and there is a grass aisle 30 feet wide be- 

 tween each two orders. In this way the botanical affinities of 

 the herbaceous and woody plants are emphasized more clearly 

 than is possible by the old arrangement of herbaceous garden, 

 fruticetum, and arboretum as separate plantations. 



Much careful study, and the cooperation of the landscape 

 architect were necessary in order to perfect an arrangement 

 like this, which could accomplish what was desired from the 

 botanical point of view, and not do violence to the beauty of 

 appearance. Some concessions had, of course, to be made, 

 but on the whole the arrangement has been worked out very 

 satisfactorily. 



The Local Flora Section (or native wild flower garden, as it 

 is popularly called), is one of our most widely appreciated 

 features, especially by plant lovers and devotees of nature study. 

 The plan is not alone to have one or two specimens of each 

 species in beds, but to have large groups of each sort, such as 

 Trillium, blood-root, wild ginger, wild geranium, Cypripedium, 

 wintergreen, Jack-in-the-pulpit, and others. 



To facilitate the growing of bog plants, which tolerate an 

 acid soil, a small bog was brought in barrels from the pine har- 

 rens of New Jersey, and placed in a basin prepared for it in 

 the wild flower garden. Here such plants as huckleberry, cran- 

 berry, and other bog plants find a congenial habitat. 



The Brooklyn Garden has been made the depository of the 



