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secause Of subsidence, the five flagstone landings of the steps 
leading from the Horticultural Section were taken up and relaid ; 
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and the north and south transverse flagstone walks were carried 
out to the paved walk. 
A bubbler drinking-fountain given sometime ago by Mrs. Adrian 
Van Sinderen, was reset and connections made with water supply 
and drain. 
Linac AREA 
In accordance with the plan for regrouping the lilacs eighteen 
large bushes were transplanted. 
KOSE GARDEN 
To improve the appearance of the Rose Garden, twenty pillar 
roses, with their cedar posts, were removed from the center beds 
to the side borders. 
hkkose ARC 
Nearly 3,000 square feet of terrace banks were planted with 
Rosa wichuraiana and covered with mulch paper. Three rose beds 
31’ x 6’ were made and planted with 300 [H.T. roses in the spring. 
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A semicircular bed, 145’ x 8 was made and planted with the Rose 
“ Clytemnestra ” in the fall. 
Ninety cubic yards of topsoil were removed from the area now 
occupied by the water basin. 
Eighty feet of concrete curbing was cast and set. 
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CONSERVATORIES 
Our conservatory collections were enriched by 67 plants of 
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Begonia in 37 species and varieties, the gift o 
‘Idridge, and by 76 cuttings of Begonia in 41 varieties obtained 
by exchange. 
We obtained by exchange 75 plants, 31 species, of Lithops, 
Rimaria, Gibbaewm, ete., belonging in groups of Mese mbryanthema, 
which either resemble stones; or “ windowed plants,” the leaves 
of which are adapted to admit light to the assimilating tissue which 
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is almost subterranean in habit. 
