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Flower Garden and the Econonuc Plant Garden have remained 
Vy nf sufficient 
gardening force to maintain them if they were reestablished. The 
vrading and development of the Horticultural Section on the North 
Addition (between the Museum and the Reservoir) which 1s 
planned for 1931 will necessitate additional garc 
temporarily abandoned for several years for lack 
er 
eners for main- 
tenance and guard duty. 
Twelve Months of Bloom 
Vhe Christmas Iris (/ris Vartani), a bulbous species which 
normally blooms in December in its native home in Palestine, 
was in bloom in the Rock Garden for several days beginning 
January 6. Snowdrops began blooming about February 2, and a 
number of yellow Crocuses were in flower on March 10, preceded, 
as usual, by the Winter Aconite. Thence we had a continuous 
succession of bloom throughout the entire twelve months of 1930, 
ending with Crocus salzmannt and Crocus longifolia which were 
in bloom in the Rock Garden in December. 
Rose Garden 
The roses wintered well over the season of 1920-30. The 
garden has been greatly improved by adding lattice panels and 
pillars to the north pergola and by the concrete posts to hold 
festoon chains. A more detailed statement concerning the Rose 
Garden is given in the appended report of the horticulturist. 
Japanese Garden 
When an art museum obtains an oil painting of a landscape and 
hangs it in the proper gallery the major cost for that exhibit has 
been met for all time. The same is true of a collection of wax 
models of flowers or any other exhibit in a natural history museum. 
Not so with a garden of living plants. The cost of construction 
and first planting of a rose garden, rock garden, Japanese garden, 
is only a beginning. Considerable sums for maintenance, re- 
planting, and care of plants must be provided from some source 
every year. Our Japanese Garden was constructed with private 
funds provided by our first chairman, Mr. Alfred T. White. The 
