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been used during 1911. Of the plants now in the Garden 213% 
have been purchased, 156 derived by gift, 280 collected, and 45 
received by exchange. 
Assistance 
The gardening operations carried on as described above have 
been done under the immediate supervision of the head gar- 
dener and the foreman gardener, by a force of from 7-17 
laborers. During 21 weeks 7 men were employed, during 6 
weeks in the spring from 9-17 men were employed, and at the 
opening of the horticultural operations there were from 3-5 men 
working for two weeks. 
Besides the general gardening work mentioned above, this 
force has attended to the mowing of the lawns, weeding of the 
paths, general clearing up of the grounds, and other work now 
scheduled under Section I of your outline of the Departmental 
Organization of the Garden. and doubtless ultimately should be 
under the direction of a superintendent of grounds and buildings. 
During the past year this work has been carried out by the gar- 
dening force and I now suggest the segregation of our laborers 
for 1912 into two divisions, one of gardening proper, to be under 
the supervision of the head gardener, and another force that 
shall cover all other general work on the grounds, paths, fences 
and elsewhere, and be under the supervision of the foreman gar- 
dener. It would be desirable, until the appointment of a general 
superintendent of grounds, that both of these forces report 
directly to me. 
Personal Activities 
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During time not directly taken up with curatorial duties, I 
have continued my work on the problem of the distribution of 
the wild plants hereabouts, involving the publication of the pre- 
liminary papers in Torreya, and looking to the publication of 
final results in the near future. I have in addition recorded a 
number of phenological observations, and am planning a more 
systematic attempt to keep these as we get better organized later 
on. In addition I have written articles of a popular nature 
for the Garden Magazin 
I have delivered "8 (ene since my appointment, two of these 
for The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, the others for 
