tion than the people of a downtown New York street at lunch hour. 
And in certain regions, all the varied races of plants that make up 
a tropical forest society — figs, palms, soap trees, garlic trees, cow 
trees, innumerable members of the pea family (such as the tan 
bark vilca and the purple heart), climbing milkweeds, perching 
cacti, climbing ferns, orchids, Bromeliads (the pineapple family); 
thin, twisted, flat, round, big and little vines and climbers ; arums, 
rubber trees and hosts of others — present the appearance of 
climbing over and clambering on top of each other — anyway to 
get up — up toward the light and sun. Here the struggle for life 
in the plant world— for a place in the sunlight, is perhaps the most 
strenuous of any area in the world, corresponding perhaps to the 
struggle among human beings in such densely populated areas as 
India, China and our own city of New York. In all directions, as 
one traverses this great forest region, are strewn the dead and 
dying — unnoticed mostly, except by the naturalist, because there 
are so many to take their places, even before their struggle is over. 
And so one finds almost innumerable species, but only a few plants 
of this, a few bushes of that, and few trees of one kind near 
together. Here in this Brazil nut country, the red howling monkey 
sings his morning and evening song; the tapir browses with its 
young beside the canebrake-walled streams, and on the sandbars 
the giant turtles lay their eggs by millions. Here, too, the cacao 
or chocolate tree matures its pumpkin-colored fruits, and vanilla 
pods scent the forest with their fragrance. 
Orland E. White. 
NOTABLE GARDEN FEATURES OF 
THE SEASON 
The 12,000 daffodils, naturalized in the lawn just west of the 
Laboratory Building, have passed their prime, but beyond and 
above them, thousands of rosy Darwin tulips, also naturalized, 
are bursting into flower, in a lovely silent harmony of pink and 
green. Now is the appointed time for Azaleas and Rhododendrons. 
Some of these have been in bloom for several days — most striking 
of which is the Japanese Hinodigiri variety, of a brilliant crimson 
color. The Azaleas have clothed the knolls at the southwest part 
of the Garden with masses of gorgeous colors. In the Lilac 
plantation in the northwest part of the Garden, over 120 varieties, 
many of them rare hybrids of French origin, delight the visitor 
with their delicious fragrance, some of them with marvelous 
shades of purple, and others of the purest white. Perhaps the 
most beautiful feature of the Garden at present is the Japanese 
Garden, which for picturesqueness and exquisite color baffles 
description. A. H. G. 
The Leaflets are published weekly or biweekly from April to June, and 
October to November, inclusive, by the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Brooklyn, 
N. Y. 
