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4. Six thousand bulbs consisting of 30 varieties of tulips and 8 
of narcissus were planted in 36 beds. Half of these bulbs 
were secured in Holland, the balance came from the U. 5. 
Department of Agriculture. This is in the nature of an 
experimental planting, in cooperation with the Department, 
the object being to compare American grown and, Hol- 
land bulbs of the same sorts under uniform conditions. 
s. Local Flora beds replanted and rearranged, so that the clas- 
sification would be more systematic, and local over- 
crowding corrected. 
6. Ornamental planting along the brook, where large groups of 
water-loving species have been planted. 
7. Remaking of the chrysanthemum and peony bed near the Jap- 
anese garden. 
During the year seeds of about 800 species and varieties were 
collected for the seed exchange system, and 1,150 packets were 
distributed in response to requests resulting from the publica- 
tion of our first annual Seed List. 
As before, a good deal of time has been given to the depart- 
ment of public instruction and to the experimental plantings, and 
Mr. Free has given many talks and practical demonstrations on 
gardening. | 
During the coming year nearly all the systematic collections 
will have to be moved so as to occupy that part of the south 
addition shown on the new plan for those collections, which was 
approved by you on December 22. This plan has involved a 
re-study of the whole arrangement of the systematic collections 
by Mr. Caparn and myself, and the scheme as finally laid down 
will make the different orders much more homogeneous units and 
leave larger grass spaces between each order. An account of 
this scheme appeared in Landscape Architecture for July, but the 
area now occupied by the collections is larger than on the plan 
shown there. 
LABELING AND OTHER CLERICAL WoRK 
During the year, 447 labels have been made for herbaceous col- 
lections, about 150 of a temporary nature, for the greenhouse, 
