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the attendant planting. It has now been decided to have four rows 

 of flowering cherries, one row on each side of the inner walks. 

 For these rows the double, pink-flowered Primus serrulata variety 

 " Fugenzo " (or " Kofugen ") has been selected. There will be 

 19 trees in each row or 76 in all. These should be coming into 

 maturity and perfection at about the time when, it is anticipated, 

 the trees along the present Cherry Walk have passed their prime. 

 It is expected that these trees can be secured and planted in the 

 spring of 1941. 



Personnel and . Ictivities 



The need for additional gardeners and attendants can hardly be 

 over-emphasized. Year after year for several years new features 

 have been added to the grounds — Laboratory and Conservatory 

 Plazas, Rose Garden, Rose Arc, Horticultural section. Herb Gar- 

 den, et cetera, all representing intensive planting, all requiring the 

 services of trained gardeners, and yet our gardening force is no 

 larger than it was before the addition of these important features 

 which contribute so much to the beauty of the grounds, their hor- 

 ticultural interest and importance, and their educational effective- 

 ness. Some things, of course, have had to be neglected. Not less 

 than five additional gardeners are urgently needed, at a total annual 

 cost of $8.000-$ ( ),000. 



The distressing losses from vandalism, in many cases requiring 

 years for recovery where grown trees and shrubs are killed and 

 hedges ruined, could easily be reduced by one half if we had an 

 attendant at each of the five gates, at a total annual cost of about 

 $7,500. 



Research. — The importance of the scientific work of the Garden 

 has been stressed over and over again in successive annual re- 

 ports, and yet this work has never been put on the permanent 

 basis of an endowment. The need of endowment for research 

 should be kept before us until the need is met. As f have noted 

 in the preceding annual report, the percentage of our total budget 

 devoted to research fell from about 24 per cent, in 1927 to only 

 9.15 per cent, in 1938, which is the present figure — a falling off 

 of about 62 per cent. 



The total endowment principal at the close of the year ($1,381,- 

 449.36) represents a slight increase ($7,061.01) over 1939. In 



