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Flashback: A Botanic Garden Grows in Brooklyn

<p>Japanese Garden at BBG, 1963.</p>


<p>The Garden's first director, Dr. Gager, speaking at the laying of the cornerstone of the Laboratory Building, 1916.</p>


<p>Japanese Garden, 1915.</p>



<p>People working to create bonsai trees, April 1955.</p>


<p>October 1955.</p>


<p>Blind school children during an outing in Brooklyn Botanic Garden of Fragrance, where the plants are selected for scent &amp; accompanied by Braille descriptions. October 1955.</p>



<p>Japanese Pine trees, dwarfed &amp; shaped in Japanese fashion. April 1955.</p>