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State Museum at Albany, and the Gray Herbarium at Harvard 

 University in connection with the work on the Flora of Long 

 Island. 



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ed for and moved to the Garden 



the botanical material from the Long Island Historical Society. 

 The Society has deposited this with the Garden with the hope that 

 we can make more use of it than they could. Among other things 

 it contains a complete collection of cross sections of Long Island 

 woods, made many years ago by E. S. Miller, of Wading River, 

 and the late Elias Hicks. 



AuMviin- iii:|uiri« >. paiti ularly as to garden and Long Island 

 soils, and the identification of specimens of Long Island plants 

 has taken considerable time. Many of the soil samples have come 

 from Brooklyn schools through the department of elementary in- 

 Personal Activities 



I have continued to serve as an Associate Editor of Ecology, and 

 upon the executive committee of the directors of the Long Island 

 Historical Society. During the year I was appointed as chairman 

 of Nature Guidance of the New York section of the Green Moun- 

 tain Club. During the year I completed the manuscript of a 

 Guide to the Wild Flowers, a popular book on the identification of 

 the common plants cast of the Mississippi and north of Virginia. 

 It will be published early in 1928. 



Respectfully submitted, 



Norman Taylor, 

 Curator of Plants. 



REPORT OF THE HORTICULTURIST AND HEAD 

 GARDENER FOR 1927 

 Dr. C. Stuart Gager, Director. 



Sir: I beg to submit herewith my report for the year ending 

 December 31, 1927. 



Beginning January 1. 1 ... ib. i. 1 <ing force came under my 

 charge, making my position virtually Superintendent of Grounds, 

 mi Mld.'im. to that of Horticulturist and Head Gardener: 



