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REPORT OF THE HORTICULTURIST AND HEAD 
GARDENER FOR 1926 
Dr. C. Stuart GAGER, DIRECTOR. 
Sir: I beg to submit herewith my report for the year ending 
December 31, 1926. 
In addition to routine maintenance, gardening work was as 
follows: 
General Systematic Section 
In continuation of the policy of clearly defining the limits of 
the Orders and Families of plants in this Section limiting hedges 
of the following plants were set out in the spring: Prunus tomen- 
tosa, P. triloba, Spiraea “ Anthony Waterer,” Rubus odoratus, 
lex crenata and I. glabra. These, in addition to fulfilling the pur- 
pose outlined above, will serve to show their value as unusual 
hedge plants. 
The crowded condition of the trees and shrubs in the area 
allotted to the Apples and their relatives (Pomaceae) clearly called 
for drastic treatment so that individual specimens could have op- 
portunity for proper development. As a result of a re-study of 
the adjacent areas by yourself, the Consulting Landscape Archi- 
tect, and the writer, it was found possible to re-align the borders 
of the Magnoliaceae so as to provide more room for the Pomaceae. 
The work of thinning out the crowded trees and transplanting 
them to the new area was carried out in the fall. 
Ornamental Planting 
A large number of appropriate plants were set out in the rock 
garden, in the vacant spaces left by the removal of “ filler” plants 
mentioned in my 1925 report. Some of this new material was 
derived from seed received in exchange from other botanic 
gardens, and a great deal as seeds or plants from the rich alpine 
collection of Mr. Clarence Lown of Poughkeepsie, who has al- 
ways been most generous in his exchanges with the Botanic 
Garden. 
During the summer thirteen new beds were made along the 
N.W. side of the avenue of Japanese Flowering Cherries to ac- 
