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There have been considerable additions to existing collections, 
notably among the Iris Garden and Japanese Garden, the latter 
under the supervision of Miss Averill. 
The greenhouse collections have suffered from shortage of 
coal which necessitated closing up more than half of the houses 
and crowding the plants into the remainder. While few died 
as a result of the crowding, the collection is by no means in the 
condition it was during 1917. The houses have been closed to 
the public since January ro, r918. During warm weather the 

Fic. 6. Mossy Saxifrage (S. caespitosa) in the rock-garden. 
plants were shifted back to their old positions, crowded together 
again in October, and put again in their permanent places in 
December preparatory to opening the houses to the public early 
in 1919. 
For the first time in the history of the Garden we staged an 
exhibition at the Spring Flower Show at Grand Central Palace. 
