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REPORT OF THE CURATOR OF PLANTS 
AND PLANTATIONS FOR 1926 
Dr. C. Stuart GAGER, DIRECTOR. 
Sir: I take pleasure in submitting my fifteenth and last annual 
report as curator of plants and plantations. 
The work of the department during 1926 was largely of a main- 
tenance nature, but some new work was accomplished : 
t. Erection of new Botanic Garden signs at all the gates. 
2. Two sets of wooden steps built at lower end of the esplanade. 
3. Experimental enclosure between greenhouses and Washington 
Avenue prepared and fenced. 
4. Two simple bridges built across the brook, one of stone near 
the ecological section, and one of concrete near the chil- 
dren’s garden. 
5. Grading south of the manure pit to increase size of the service 
yard. 
The labor conditions, pointed out in my last report, remain the 
same, if anything, a-little worse. Diversion of men, who should 
spend all their time in purely maintenance work, to the gardening 
force, or to the experimental enclosure, leaves the foreman under- 
manned for general work. 
Personal Activities 
During the autumn I visited Kew, the British Museum, and the 
Jardin des Plantes, at Paris. I have continued my association 
with the Long Island Historical Society. 
Respectfully submitted, 
NorMAN TAYLOR, 
Curator of Plants and Plantations 
