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verted into an orchid house. To make room for the plants, it 
was necessary to bridge over the walks between the center benches 
and to construct stepped staging on both side and center benches. 
WIND STORM 
On August 23d, the Garden was visited by a terrific wind and 
rain storm, Practically the whole force of gardeners and labor- 
ers was occupied for an entire week in cleaning up and repairing 
the damage resulting from this storm. In most cases, the injured 
trees and shrubs were not broken off but merely toppled over be- 
cause the rain-soaked ground failed to hold the roots. This made 
it possible to pull most of the casualties back to their normal 
It is really amaz- 
vertical position and stay them with guy wires. 
The only trees of 
ing that so little permanent injury was done. 
consequence that it was not possible to restore were the Paulownia 
in the Systematic Section and a large Platanus on Boulder Hill. 
MIscELLANEOUS 
Fifteen hundred rooted cuttings of Japanese honeysuckle were 
planted to clothe the new fence around the [Experimental Plot. 
were made during 
About three hundred concrete drain “ tiles ” 
the winter to be used for the purpose of underdraining the Con- 
servatory Garden. , 
Two hundred yards of walk near the north Flatbush Avenue 
entrance was surfaced with Cow Bay Grits held together with a 
sealing coat of bituminous emulsion. 
The old road northeast of the Japanese Gard 
ject to erosion during every rainstorm, was removed and a new 
road constructed. This road is 130 feet long and 15 feet wide, 
made with a stone foundation and a surface of ashes bound with 
The new alignment and grade necessi- 
en, which was sub- 
a bituminous emulsion. 
tated the construction of a low stone wall on one side which was 
continued as a stone edging along the fence up to the north en- 
trance of the Japanese Garden—three hundred feet in all. 
About five hundred feet of barbed wire fence was replaced at 
the top of the Museum Iembankment. 
