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Trenches were dug for nearly 200 feet of irrigation pipe, which 
was installed by our own men. 
The planting accomplished is noted in the report of the As- 
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sociate Curator of Plants. 
ORNAMENTAL PLANTING 
One hundred plants of European Hornbeam were planted on 
either side of the walk near the north Flatbush Avenue entrance. 
In order to give the trees a fair chance, the soil was dug and 
manured to a depth of two feet in two strips three feet wide, each 
150 feet long. It is proposed to train these trees to form a 
pleached alley. 
Seven new peony bec 
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s, accommodating about 250 plants, were 
made at the easterly end of the Museum Embankment. The ma- 
terial to furnish these beds was obtained from the peony planting 
in the Conservatory Garden. 
Five thousand plants of English Ivy, propagated here, were set 
out under the trees on Boulder Hill where the shade is too dense to 
permit the growth of lawn grass. 
The narcissus planting, between the fence of the Experimental 
Plot and the walk, was removed, the border widened three feet, 
and planted with various groups of May flowering tulips. Forty- 
nine varieties were planted—one hundred bulbs of each. 
Three new iris beds were made. Two, in the Ecological Sec- 
tion, are each over 800 square feet in area; and one, near the 
brook west of the Rosaceae, over 400 square feet. 
About ninety azaleas in twenty-two varieties were planted to 
replace dead and sickly specimens in the planting near Empire 
Boulevard entrance. The soil in this area is not suited to the 
growth of azaleas and should be removed and replaced with new 
soil, 
Eight young Magnolia trees and a dozen Clematis plants were 
set out to frame the Laboratory Plaza planting. 
CONSERVATORIES 
In order to accommodate the gift of Mrs. Nathan S. Jonas of 
over four hundred orchid plants, house No. 3, which contained a 
miscellaneous collection of tropical plants, was emptied and con- 
