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representatives of the New Jersey pine-barren bogs such as white 
cedar (Chamaecyparis thyoides), pyxie moss, Polygala lutea, sev- 
eral species of pipewort (/riocaulon), and Xyris. They have 
lived through the past summer and appear to be prospering. A 
good growth of Sphagnum moss and pitcher plants has been main- 
tained without difficulty and the outlook for a really successful bog 
is very bright. The trailing arbutus (/pigaea repens), ordinarily 
a difficult plant to grow, has succeeded very well on the borders of 
this area. Between ninety and a hundred species are now growing 
in the bog area alone. Most of this material has been collected in 
the New Jersey pine barrens and from bogs in the Catskill Mts. 
4. The Heath Association—The old plantation of mountain 
laurel (Kalmia latifolia) at the extreme southern end has taken a 
new lease of life since it has had extensive ground treatment with 
peat and decayed leaves. At the borders within the peat zone sev- 
eral species of blueberries and huckleberries have been planted, and 
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it is our intention to assemble here all the native members of the 
Heath Family which thrive in dry soil. 
Phanerogamic Herbarium 
Supervision of work in organizing, mounting, and filing material 
in the phanerogamic herbarium has taken much of my time during 
the year; the unusual conditions which 
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lave provided us with so 
much clerical help throughout the year may possibly never come 
again. 
During the past year Miss Belle H. Burr, curatorial assistant 
from September 27, 1928 to July 31, 1931, resigned, Fortunately, 
beginning August 1, we were able to fill her place with Mrs. Mar- 
garet B. Putz, who has had many years of experience at the 
Garden. 
Due to the cooperation of various charitable organizations in 
sending us clerical workers (the number has ranged from six to 
eighteen in the herbarium), we have been able to sort out and 
mount in the past year most of our stored herbarium collections. 
Many of these specimens have been untouched for years due to 
the lack of clerical assistance for such tasks. Our records show 
that 11,254 herbarium sheets have been mounted during the past 
year; a very large number of sheets have also been repaired and 
