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publications and addresses by members of staff, and meetings 
held at the Garden during the year, are appended as a part of 
this report. 
Respectfully submitted, . 
C. STUART GAGER, 
Director. 
REPORT OF THE CURATOR OF PLANTS FOR i010 
Dr. C. STUART GAGER, DIRECTOR: 
Sir: I take pleasure in submitting herewith my report for the 
year ending 31 December, 1919. 
General Maintenance and Construction Force 
Work began on March 10 and ended November 21. During a 
considerable part of the season we had 20-28 men in the force. 
Only in the earlier years of heavy construction work have we had 
more men, and never in the history of the Garden have we been 
able to keep so many for such a long period. The effect of this, 
together with an abnormal summer rainfall, was to make the 
Garden more beautiful, and better kept up than ever in its history. 
Fresh green lawns, well kept paths, and many of the little details 
that make gardens attractive were so much in evidence during 
the summer that everyone who commented on it confirmed our 
own impression that, perhaps for the first time, the general up- 
keep of the place came within measurable distance of being what 
it has always been our hope to make it. The expenditure for 
labor was very heavy, partly because the very frequent rains 
demanded almost daily lawn-mowing; and the incentive to match 
the unusually beautiful mid-summer condition by a correspond- 
ing attention to details of upkeep that a dry, dusty summer would 
have discouraged. The effect of this has been that the actual 
new work accomplished does not come up to our expectations, nor 
does it more than one third complete the program we mapped 
out in our “Items for Development of Grounds for 1919-1920,” 
dated 3 May, r919. Actual new work accomplished by this force 
during the year is as follows: 
