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foundation or on specific endowments which may in time come to the 
Garden for this purpose, and with this in view I would suggest, in case 
the Board secure permission to sell real estate, that it reserve that por- 
tion of the ground immediately north of the arboretum and fruticetum, 
ultimately improving it and utilizing it so as to make it an adequate 
source of revenue, but retaining the ownership, so that a zoological gar- 
den, if it were ever rendered possible, might easily be provided at that 
point as an adjunct to the Garden. 
These plans, which I have gone intoin some detail, are, nevertheless, 
in the main, outline plans, and it is impossible to say, until the exact 
financial prospects for any given period of years shall be known, how 
rapidly they can be materialized. 
Concurring in my opinion that one of the most necessary 
early steps is the suitable extension of the grounds, the 
Board have intrusted to Messrs. Olmsted, Olmsted & 
Eliot, of Brookline, Massachusetts, the preparation of a 
general plan for the improvement of the pastures con- 
tiguous to the present garden, including details for the 
planting of the proposed North American synopsis, and 
accompanied by suggestions for the future treatment of the 
land now under cultivation, so as ultimately to secure a 
harmonious and logical whole. In the main, the sugges- 
tions of the report here quoted have been adopted by this 
firm, with the single important exception that for the pro- 
posed palm house the second site noted in my report has 
been chosen as the more appropriate. While these exten- 
sion plans are yet too incomplete to admit of any very 
definite statement being made, it is hoped that the finances 
of the Board may render possible their early inception and 
uninterrupted, if gradual, accomplishment. The unfortu- 
nate storm losses of the past summer will also, no doubt, 
necessarily bring the renovation of the present flower 
garden into the near future. 
As a first step toward the extension of the Garden as an 
institution of research, the Board, since the preceding out- 
line of plans was submitted, have converted the horticul- 
tural appointment into one promising a sufficient increase 
in salary to make it possible for us to retain permanently a 
desirable appointee, and there is reason to hope that in 
