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vated gardens—or only one man for every three acres. Of course, 
it can't be done, and the Garden will never approach more closely 
to the ideal of proper maintenance until we are able to employ 
more gardeners. 
The Cherry Trees along Cherry Walk and the cherries and 
flowering crabs adjacent thereto, were never more beautiful than 
during 1942. While they were in flower special studies were 
of their naming, with a view to accuracy of 
made, by Dr. Reed, 
name and to eliminating duplicates, for the trees have now become 
unning. 
— 
so large as to necessitate t 
The four new rows of flowering cherries, 
trees in all, on the Esplanade, and the six trees of the white 
flowered “Shirotae,” on the Museum embankment, all planted in 
1941, came through their first winter without any casualties. 
ets were affixed to boulders at each 
“Cherry 
variety Awanzan, 76 
During the year bronze tabl 
end of each double row to mark “Cherry Lane East’ and 
Lane West.” 
Local Flora Section. It was in the Annual ae for 1938 
that we published a preliminary sketch by Miss Purdy of the lime- 
stone ledge planned by Dr. Svenson for the Local F “lora Section. 
It was not until 1941, that the truckload of limestone, given in 
1937 by Mr. Bernhard Hoffman, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, was 
supplemented by the gift of six more truckloads by Mr. Augustus 
Andover, New Jersey, making sufficient rock to 
Whittingham, of 
The initial 
construct a ledge similar to the sketch by Miss Purdy. 
ledge was done in April, 1942. 
The Local Flora Section now has ten well-defined ecological 
habitats: 1. Acid Bog; 2. Sand Barren (Fig. 1); 3. Pond; 4. 
Woodland; 5. Serpentine Bank (Fig. 7); 6. Granite Lede: 7, 
Plains; 8. Wet Meadow ; 9. Brook; 10. Limestone Ledge (Fig. 6). 
Ul iustrated in Dr. Svenson’s Guide to the Local Flora 
planting of this 
F 
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These are < 
Section, published in July. 
Fern Garden. In the preceding report we noted that a portion 
of the limestone contributed by Mr. Whittingham was placed in 
a part of the Fern Garden area on the south shore of the Lake, 
affording a suitable condition for certain “lime-loving’” species. 
These and other types constitute the initial planting of this garden 
in 1942 
