BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN 
LEAFLETS 
Series IX Brooklyn, N. Y., April 6, 1921. No. 1 
The Brooklyn Botanic Garden gives its third annual course 
of spring lectures, free to the public, on Fridays at 4 o’clock, 
from April 8 to April 29. This year the theme of the lectures will 
be “The Flower Garden.” Our lecturers have been asked to tell 
briefly the ground they are to cover in their lectures, so that the 
public may come having some idea of the subjects and person- 
alities of the lecturers. Following are the dates, subjects, names 
of the lecturers, and a brief outline of the talks. 
APRIL 8.— THE FLOWER GARDEN: ITS PLAN AND ARRANGE- 
MENT by Miss Grace Tabor, Author, Editor, and Landscape 
Architect, New York City. 
“ The term flower garden does not necessarily imply size or 
magnitude of gardening operations— but it does imply a garden 
concept rather than a hit-or-miss use of flowers. Generally 
speaking, this garden concept is what we lack ; and when it is 
perceived, it still fails to take into consideration the necessity 
for close association between house and garden, hence we seldom 
arrive at the actually livable garden, here in America. As one of 
the first reasons for having a garden is that it may be enjoyed, 
it is essential that this quality of livableness be its chief char- 
acteristic (since we can fully enjoy only through intimacy and 
close association), therefore instead of proceeding to the de- 
velopment of a flower garden through study and consideration of 
the plants which go to adorn it, the first thoughts should be 
given to its situation and form with relation to the house, — of 
which it is to be regarded as a continuation, — or perhaps more 
exactly, the complement. Rightly placed and planned, it will 
then afford the fullest opportunity for making acquaintance with 
its occupants, the flowers; whereas, if it is not right in its 
fundamentals of place and form, it never will facilitate such 
acquaintance. And though the gardener may persist and may 
