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MrpicinaL GARDEN 
Started asa WPA project but left unfinished, the grading and 
low retaining wall of the medicinal garden was completed by our 
own men. The garden area was seeded to lawn grass in the fall 
It is proposed to make the beds and plant them in 1937. 
MISCELLANEOUS 
One hundred Mountain Laurel (Nalmia latifolia) were planted 
to ultimately form an evergreen screen between the Flatbush Ave- 
nue service yard and the garden. Twenty-five Japanese Yew 
(Taxus cuspidata capitata) were planted between the service yard 
and the street. 
Fifty Rhododendron maxtmiun were planted to screen the tool 
shed in the rear of Lily-of-the-Valley planting. 
The Lily-of-the-Valley bed (1100 sq. ft.) was replanted and the 
surplus used as a ground cover (1200 sq. ft.) under trees south 
of the Local Flora Section. 
The construction of a small “ ravine”’ in which to grow crypto- 
gams (mosses, clubmosses, horsetails, etc.) was started on the south 
bank of the lake. It was necessary to move 30 large Rhododen- 
drons. 
Over 400 feet of irrigation pipe was laid and 20 faucets installed 
in various sections of the garden. 
A pipe and wire fence 205 feet long was erected around the 
Flatbush Avenue service yard. 
EXHIBITS 
We were awarded a Gold Medal for our exhibit of Plants for 
Rock Gardens at the twenty-third International Flower Show, 
Grand Central Palace, New York, March 16-21, 1936. 
We received a Botanical Certificate for a pan of Narcissus 
viridiflorus (Green Daffodil) exhibited on November 18 at the 
monthly meeting of the Horticultural Society of New York. 
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Seep AND PLANT DISTRIBUTION 
In connection with the International Seed Exchange, 4454 
packets of seed were distributed to foreign and domestic botanic 
