Identifier: brooklynbotanicg00gage (find matches)
Title: The Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Gager, C. Stuart (Charles Stuart), 1872-1943
Subjects: Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Publisher: (Brooklyn?)
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
Digitizing Sponsor: Metropolitan New York Library Council - METRO

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both devoted exclusively to trees and shrubs,there are now only three independent botanic gardens in theUnited States, namely the Missouri Botanical Garden, at St.Louis, the New York Botanical Garden, in Bronx Borough,and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Of the last three, the Brook-lyn garden is the youngest, having been established in 1910. Like several other educational institutions in New York City,the Brooklyn Botanic Garden is administered by a private or-ganization (in this case the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sci-ences) cooperating with the city. The city owns the land, hasmade appropriations of corporate stock for permanent improve-ments of the grounds and to meet part of the cost of the con-struction of buildings, and makes an annual appropriation inthe tax budget for maintenance. The articulation with thecity government is through the department of parks. Theprivate organization has provided a permanent endowment,the income from which is supplemented by membership dues, 119
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go sg a CQ H 120 INTERNATIONAL GARDEN CLUB 121 special contributions, and, to a very slight extent, by incomefrom tuition and sales. An institution thus supported is under a double obligation;first to the community, second to science. This obligation isrecognized by the Garden in its motto, For the advancement ofbotany and the service of the city, and the work is organizedabout these two ideas. A botanic garden may serve the city by affording additionalpark space for suitable recreation, and by ministering to theaesthetic sense of the people; it should be beautiful and invit-ing as well as instructive. But a botanic garden is more thana park, and may render other and more valuable services, es-pecially where there is already ample provision of park space. The plantations of the Brooklyn Garden are laid out ineight sections as follows: 1. Systematic Section. a. Hardy herbaceous plants, exclusive of local flora. arranged in beds according to their natural affinities. b. Shrubs (Fruticet

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