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REPORT OF THE HORTICULTURIST FOR 1940 



To the Director: 



T submit herewith my report for the year ending December 31. 

 1940. 



Personnel 



Every year for the past six years the first paragraph of my an- 

 nual report has contained a statement to the effect that three addi- 

 tional trained gardeners are urgently needed. 



Student Observers 



Three young men, Isadore Frankel, Frank Ganz, Albert Swan- 

 son, worked as student observers for a total of 37 days without 

 pay (154 days less than in 1939). 



Labor paid for by Government relief organizations 



Works Progress Administration 

 Gardeners (3) 490 days 4,320 hours 



National Youth Administration 



32 youths 384 6-hour days \ < , q9n , 



1,152 8-hour days/ u .^ u nours 



S YSTEM AT I C S ECTION 



The conifer collection was enriched by the addition of 12 species 

 and varieties consisting of 14 plants in large sizes given by Colonel 

 Robert H. Montgomery of Cos Cob. The trees were dug (for 

 the most part) and transported to the Garden by our own men. 



A large planting (63 plants in 24 varieties) of European, Asi- 

 atic, and .American yews (Ta.viis) was installed in the area east 

 of the Japanese Garden. 



Nearly 100 varieties of hardy chrysanthemums are now repre- 

 sented in the collection as the result of an addition of 28 new 

 varieties. 



HO RTI C ULT U R A L S I': CT I O N 



Three thousand miscellaneous plants, raised here, were planted 

 in the wall garden extension built by W. P. A. as part of the Mount 

 Prospect Park Project. 



