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. Making five new beds on and near the Wild Flower Pauli 
planting over 1,500 plants of Viola pedata collected from 
Hempstead Plains. 
Frozen clumps of the bearberry (Arctostaphylos) were 
brought in during January and planted near the Malbone 
Street gate, in specially prepared beds. These plants have, 
so far, shown every indication of doing well. 
8. Planting privet hedge at service yard. 
. Occupied, for the first time, all of the new greenhouses, with 
some interruptions for repairs. As finally planned they 
are to be used as shown in the accompanying plan (Fig. 4). 
. Initial planting of the Iris garden. 
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Iris Garden 
An Tris collection was started during the autumn, arranged 
upon the advice of Mr. Caparn, to continue from the northerly 
end of the willow collection to the lake, on both sides of the brook. 
Special beds and borders have been prepared for Japanese Iris, 
German Iris, Intermediate Iris, and other groups. There are now in 
the collection over 90 horticultural varieties and about 15 species. 
Some of these were already in our collections, some were pur- 
chased, and the following firms have contributed plants as indi- 
‘cated, sending 4 of each variety: Bobbink and Atkins, 20 varie~- 
ties; Palisades Nurseries, 18 varieties; Mrs. Frances E. Cleveland, 
12 varieties; Henry A. Dreer, 8 varieties; F. R. Pierson & Co., 6 
varieties; Cottage Gardens Co., 6 varieties. 
Among noteworthy gifts of living plants, in addition to those 
for the Iris Garden, were: 96 plants for greenhouses from Mr. 
Harold I. Pratt, Brooklyn; 42 for greenhouses from Miss Kath- 
erine Husted, Broadalbin, N. Y.; 3 each from Miss Ellen Eddy 
Shaw, Brooklyn; Mr. R. Le Boutillier, Philadelphia, and Mrs. 5. 
W. Quick. Also from Isaac Hicks & Son 3 evergreens and 13 de- 
ciduous trees for the Rock Garden and vicinity. Gifts of one 
plant each were received from Mr. H. G. Rugg, Mr. H. B. Pratt, 
and Mr. Alfred T. White. 
Fifty-eight plants for the rock garden from Mr. Clarence 
Lown, Poughkeepsie, and 20 rock garden plants from Mrs. Louis 
Stuyvesant Chandler, Tuxedo, N. Y. were also received as gifts. 
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