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The heath and heather planting on the Reservoir Bank was ex- 

 tended by the addition of 1,200 plants. 



A large planting of all available varieties of Forsythia (30 

 bushes, 6 varieties) together with Welgela, Philadelphus and other 

 ornamental shrubs was made on Reservoir Bank. 



Rose ( tarden 



1 he Rose Garden was opened to the public from May 6th to 

 November 30th. During the height of the rose season the closing 

 time was extended from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. ; it was opened on Sundays 

 Irom 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. The provision of guards during the extra 

 hours the Rose Garden was open correspondingly cut down the 

 labor available for general work of the Garden. 



Six new varieties of I hybrid Tea roses (6 of each ) and 6 Climb- 

 ers were planted in place of discarded varieties. Approximately 

 200 replacements were made. In the fall 100 World's Fair and 80 

 President Macia were planted in the Rose Are to replace Little 

 Beauty and Aliee Harding. For the above roses we are indebted 

 to Bobbink & .Atkins, Rutherford, N. J., 187 plants; The Conard- 

 I'yle Co., West Grove, Pa., 4') plants; Henry A. Dreer. Philadel- 

 phia, Pa., 1 plant; Jackson «!v Perkins, Newark, X. Y.. 127 plants; 

 Traendly & Schenck, New York, 58 plants. 



( )rnam ental Plant] ngs 



Thirty-seven new varieties of herbaceous peonies, the gift of 

 Edward Auten, Jr., were added to the collection north of Cherry 

 Walk to replace dead and unthrifty varieties. For each plant six 

 cubic feet oi old soil was removed and replaced by fresh soil. 



Parti)' to increase the space available for Taxus and partly to 

 accommodate 20 varieties of Tree Peony which we have been as- 

 sembling for a number of years, the chrysanthemums in the beds 

 opposite the east entrance to the Japanese Garden were discarded, 

 together with the major portion of the tree peonies existing there, 

 consisting oi understocks of Facouia suffruticosa which had grown 

 up and choked out the garden varieties grafted upon them. 



