flowers, and tall nasturtium, should be trained up over a fence, a 
post, a doorway, or a trellis. 
Marigolds, zinnias, corn-flowers, four-o’clocks, sunflowers, 
nasturtiums, sweet alyssum, candytuft, castor oil bean, scabiosa, 
and verbena are easy to raise. Flowers should be kept picked or 
the plants will run to seed-making. 
Vegetables easy to cultivate are these: radish, lettuce, bush 
beans, carrots, onion sets, kohlrabi, beets and corn. 
Study the following table. It may be of help in your work: 
Vegetable Planting Table 
Name 
Depth to 
Pla?it 
Drills 
apart 
Pla?its 
apart 
Bean (Bush) 
2 inches 
3 feet 
18 inches 
Beet 
1 inch 
1 foot 
8 inches 
Corn 
1| inches 
hills 
3 feet 
Kohlrabi 
i inch 
H feet 
6-12 in. 
Lettuce 
b inches 
1 foot 
8 inches 
Onion (set) 
2 inches 
1 foot 
6 inches 
Onion (seed) 
£ inch 
1 foot 
6 inches 
Radish 
| inch 
8 inches 
3 inches 
Tomato 
1£ inches 
hills 
3 feet 
E. E. S. 
NOTICE 
The Garden is open free to the public daily, from 8 a. m. until 
sunset; on Sundays and holidays at 10 a.m. Conservatories opened 
April 1-Oct. 1 , 10 a. m.-4:30 p. m.; Oct. 1-April 1-10 a. m.-4 p. m. 
Entrances on Flatbush Avenue, opposite Prospect Park; on 
Washington Avenue, south of Eastern Parkway; and on Eastern 
Parkway, west of the Museum building. 
The Entrance to the Laboratory building is on Washington 
Avenue, opposite Montgomery Street. 
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, Union 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. 
Telephone: 6173 Prospect. 
Mail address: Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
