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labor in spraying, pruning, etc., so that this force is inadequate for 
the proper maintenance of the garden. If the contemplated 
planting of the North Addition is carried through in the spring of 
1935, three additional gardeners will be urgently needed. 
The laboring force suffered the loss by death on November 24 
of Mr. Victor Zalewski, who had faithfully served the Botanic 
Garden since 1913. 
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LaBor PAID FOR BY CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS 
Throughout the year, thirty-nine men, whose wages were paid 
by charitable organizations, worked for a total of 2,5961% days, 
as compared with fifty-nine men who worked for a total of 3,955 1% 
days in 1933. 
Brooklyn Bureau of Charities........ 39 men (8 hrs. per diem) 2,471! days 
Civil Works Administration. ........ 2 RAS oy 125 
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GENERAL SYSTEMATIC SECTION 
The two tulip beds in the systematic section were trenched, 
fertilized, and replanted. The late-flowering tulips are well 
represented in the border along the Experimental Plot, so they 
were eliminated from the systematic section, their places in the 
west bed being taken by forty varieties of early flowering garden 
tulips. The east bed is given up to ‘“‘wild”’ tulips—40 species and 
varieties, 
Thirteen beds in the Campanulales area and nine beds in the 
Caryophyllales area were double dug, fertilized, and the perennial 
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plants reset. 
Because of their poor growth, the Clethra shrubs on the island 
in the terminal pool were transferred to Azalea Knoll. 
The collection of Chaenomeles species and varieties was trans- 
ferred from the eastern part of the Pomaceae area to a position 
near the main walk. This is one of many minor transplanting 
operations carried out with a view to improving the arrangement 
of the collections and the appearance of the Garden. 
As an aftermath of the severe winter of 1933-34, five men for 
one week, and two men for two weeks, were engaged in pruning 
dead and injured wood from plants in the systematic section and 
elsewhere on the grounds. 
