dron planting. The tree was planted by Professor Adolf Engler, 
the noted director of the Royal Botanic Garden, Berlin, on the 13th 
of October, 1913. Half way up a grass path, leading towards the 
Museum, is a young tree of sweet gum (Liquidambar styraciflua) , 
which was planted by the famous Dutch botanist, Professor Hugo 
deVries, on the 12th of September, 1912. 
Leaving the local flora valley, we pass a clump ot the beauti- 
ful mountain laurel, which should be in full flower at this time. 
It is just inside the entrance to the valley. As we walk through 
the Garden to the south end, we pass, on the left, the long meadow 
dotted with beds and small trees and shrubs, traversed by the 
brook which drains the lake and which flows down through its en- 
tire length. This meadow contains the general systematic collec- 
tion of the garden, where the plants are grouped in families. It 
is designed to bring together here representative species of all 
the plant families, growing those most nearly related in close 
proximity to one another. All the shrubs, trees and herbs of 
one family are planted as close together as the difficulty of such 
an arrangement will allow. A description of this scheme will ap- 
pear in a future number of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden Record. 
To the west of the central meadow, where the boulders are to 
be seen on the border mound, it is planned to build a rock garden; 
while in the new lower unimproved portion of the Garden, now 
being fenced, the systematic collections will be continued and the 
experimental and children’s garden plots will receive much-need- 
ed additional space. N. T. 
NOTICES 
The Garden is open free to the public daily, from 8 a. m. un- 
til sunset; on Sundays and holidays at 10 a. m. The Laboratory 
Building, containing the library, herbarium, and offices, is open 
daily, from 9 a. m. until 5 p. m. The Conservatories are open 
April 1-October 1, 10 a. m.-4:30 p. m.; October 1-April 1, 10 
a. m.-4 p. m. 
The Garden may be reached by Flatbush Avenue trolley to 
Malbone Street; Franklin Avenue and Lorimer Street trolleys to 
Washington Avenue; St. John’s Place trolley to Sterling Place; 
Ninth Avenue, Sixteenth Avenue, FTnion Street, Greenpoint and 
Smith Street trolleys to Prospect Park Plaza and Union Street, and 
Brighton Beach elevated to Consumers' Park Station. (The ele- 
vated train stops only when the conductor is notified in advance.) 
A docent will meet parties by appointment and conduct them 
through the Garden. This service is free to members of the 
Botanic Garden and to teachers with classes; to others there is a 
nominal charge of 25 cents an hour for parties of less than three, 
and 10 cents a person per hour for parties of three or more. 
Current numbers of Leaflets are free to all who wish them. 
Back series, complete, 50c. each; single numbers, 5c. each. 
The Leaflets are published bi weekly from April to June, and September 
to November, inclusive, by The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, at Wash- 
ington Avenue and Montgomery Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Application made for entry to the second class of mail matter, at Brooklyn, N.Y. 
Telephone: 6173 Prospect. 
Mail address: Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Brooklyn, N. Y, 
