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Cobra plant

Caption: "Beauty, Rose Lusht, and the beast, a Cobra plant, which devours insects and likes nothing better than a fly for a snack. They were shown by the Brooklyn Botanic Garden [in an exhibit...

Brooklyn receives a Bonsai

Caption: "Brooklyn receives a Bonsai--Dr. George S. Avery, director of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, announdes happily the receipt of one of the handsome dwarf pine trees called 'Bonsai' which many...

Pelican flower

Caption: "An open pelican flower [at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden], also known as aristolochia grandflora, is this bloom. It does look something like a doughnut dangling from a string ..."

Aristolochia grandiflora

Caption: "You just cannot raise this kind of flower in your backyard in Greater New York because it's not a 'city' flower. It's a bud of the aristolochia grandiflora."

Rare plants

Caption: "Mary Ann Beaver, employed at Brooklyn Botanic Garden, tends dwarf plants recently brought from England. They will be part of Garden's exhibit, 'Dwarf Plants for Contemporary Gardens,' at...

[Greenhouse]

Interior view of a greenhouse at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

[Greenhouse]

Interior view of a greenhouse at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

In the greenhouse

Caption: "In the greenhouse--Dr. Conrad B. Link, horticulturist, and Dr. George S. Avery, director of [Brookyn] Botanic Garden, take a look at plants that 30,000 other people probably will view...

Busy fellows

Caption: "Busy 'fellows'--Jane Mink, left, and Anne DeWitt, both teaching at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden on Better Brooklyn Fellowship funds, busy themselves potting plants in the Garden...