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too crowded, were replanted—the necessary room being obtained 
by lopping a corner from the adjacent Rose Family, replanting 
some plants and eliminating duplicates. 
A new bed was constructed along the brook for moisture-loving 
plants of the Buttercup Family and the Gentian bed was excavated 
and filled with new soil. 
A trellis fence of green concrete posts and chestnut palings was 
constructed and erected to define the southern edge of the Urticales 
(Elm, Mulberry and Nettle Families) and to provide a support for 
various species of Humulus (Hops). This fence is in two sec- 
tions, one of forty-three feet and one of thirty-three feet. 
In the endeavor to obtain more rapid growth on the trees and 
shrubs most of them were heavily fertilized with poultry manure 
by the “ punch hole 
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method. 
THE DrouGHutT 
The rainfall has been below normal since the beginning of 1928. 
This succession of dry years, culminating in the severe drought of 
the summer of 1932 has been trying to vegetation and to gardeners. 
Our irrigation facilities are no longer adequate and it is impossible, 
during periods of severe drought, to give all our plants all the water 
they need. By adjusting the hours of gardeners so that the 
sprinklers could be kept running night and day the woody plants 
were fairly well taken care of, but the lawns and many of the her- 
baceous beds were a sorry sight at the end of summer. 
LABORATORY PLAZA 
The planting of this area was carried out in the Spring. Five 
thousand plants of English ivy (raised here) were set out to form 
an edging three feet wide around the concrete walks. About six 
hundred and fifty Evonymus alatus compactus were used to make 
dwarf hedges around the four central panels. Four hundred and 
fifty plants of California privet were planted to form the boundary 
of the Plaza. Eighty magnolias in twelve species and varieties, 
two tulip trees, and about sixty Berberis in variety were planted. 
About twenty Schizandra chinensis and twenty Akebia quinata 
were planted on the banks. The lawn areas were sown with seeds 
of “ Colonial Bent Grass.” 
