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3ULB PLANTING 
The Holland Bulb Industry presented 5,000 May-flowering tulip 
bulbs (planted in the borders along the west and north west sides 
of the experimental plot), and 1,000 hyacinths (planted in the 
two central beds of the Canna area). The hyacinths will blossom 
and can be removed before the time comes to set out the cannas, 
The soil was thoroughly prepared to a depth of 11% feet before 
planting. 
Two thousand corms of Gladiolus in 6 varieties, the gift of the 
Flowerfield Bulb Farm, Flowerfield, L. I., were planted in what 
was formerly the Ecological Section. 
BorpeER Mounp 
In pursuance of our policy of replacing commonplace material 
with more interesting plants, 59 duplicate trees and shrubs from 
the nursery were planted on the Border Mound. Owing to the 
dry season and the impossibility of watering these plants we ex- 
pect to lose many of them. 
The poplars along Washington Avenue were so badly damaged 
by the 1938 hurricane that it was decided to remove them and 
replant with young trees. The original planting was on a “ hog- 
back”? which was partly responsible for the severe loss in this 
section (only a few of the trees were uprooted in the section 
south of the entrance gate where they were planted on level 
ground) so before setting out 81 trees in the spring this mound was 
considerably flattened. 
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Museum BANK 
The bank immediately west of the Medicinal and Culinary Herb 
Garden was planted with 77 flowering cherries and crabapples 
raised here by budding or grafting on seedling understocks. 
Pests 
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Japanese beetles were less bothersome than in 1938; and sucking 
insects were fewer than usual. Summer sprays applied in 1939 
amounted to 1,800 gallons as compared with 5,400 gallons in 1938. 
Additional grass areas to the extent of 274,000 square feet 
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were treated with lead arsenate against beetle larvae. 
