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commodate bearded Irises—an overflow from the main plantation 
along the brook. 
The planting that has been carried out in previous years is now 
paying dividends in the form of beauty—as witness the wonderful 
display of spring flowering bulbs naturalized in the lawns; the 
various flowering trees and shrubs, such as Apples and Cherries, 
Snowballs and Golden Bells; the Waterlilies, and the Hindu Lotus 
in the lake. The latter is now so vigorous that it became neces- 
sary during the summer to mow with a scythe the outskirts of the 
planting, lest it fill the whole lake. Some of the more quickly 
maturing shrubs are now assuming the proportions of “ speci- 
mens,’ for example, the Harlequin Glorybower, Clerodendron 
trichotomum, illustrated on p. 14. Attention was directed to this 
particular specimen in a letter to “ The Florists’ Exchange ” by 
Dr. Carl A. Schwarze, who described it as “a wonderful shrub 
... that looked like a huge bouquet.” 
International Seed Exchange 
The 1926 Exchange Seed List was restricted to herbaceous 
plants, and seeds of 7or species, available for exchange in the 
spring of 1927, were collected in the Garden and elsewhere. The 
distribution of seeds (of trees and shrubs only) in the spring of 
1920 to various countries is shown below: 
TABLE I 
No. of No. of No. of No. of 
Country Institutions Packets Country Institutions Packets 
WStila se. Baeentns 4 Je WelT ls ves cee cans eee 22 
Beloit. teers e, aie I 3 Jugoslavia ......... I 41 
Canada pe tars tae: 2 35 Laithiaiiiay veges oral I 62 
tr Tar air I 48 Polandtt careers 2 82 
Czechoslovakia .... 2 88 Routmania see aoe I 14 
England: 2 cce 6 82 TRUSS eee ae 3 163 
Esthonidy 223-64 que I 30 Scotland: cee I 14 
Ateclin G Ge eeedtee ewes ees Il 280 South America .... I 8 
Genmany, i325 fee 14 256 SS Pale. cs Hae Se 2 45 
lolland: nice, 3 48 DWeCEM aot ee 5 120 
Panearys e055 eee. 2 O04 Switzerland ....... 6 101 
lise baad. tae cn or ee I 1 United States ..... 9 213 
Titer ea seer ea eee 4 50 — ne 
