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Accompanying Papers 
The annual reports of the curator of plants, the curator of 
public instruction, and the librarian, and the agreement between 
the Botanical Society of America and the Garden concerning 
cooperation in the publication of the American Journal of Botany, 
are appended as parts of this report. 
Respectfully submitted, 
C. Stuart GAGER, 
Director of the Garden. 
REPORT OF THE CURATOR OF PLANTS FOR 1013 
Dr. C. Stuart GAGER, Director. 
Sir: I have the honor to submit herewith my report as Curator 
of Plants for the year ending December 31, 1913. 
1. General Maintenance and Construction Force 
As in the past, this force has carried on all laboring work such 
as grading, rockwork, mowing, cleaning, et cetera. The force 
worked from March 17 to November 21 inclusive, averaging 9 
men for most of the season, but in the spring and autumn averag- 
ing 15-18. The average number for the season actually working 
on the force was 11. Counting foremen and gardeners, the aver- 
age total of men to care for the grounds and plants is 15, which 
is very small compared to the ideal of 1 man per acre that it 
would be desirable to maintain. To the gardening force there 
were transferred 2 men for 150 working days during the busy 
seasons. 
The chief work carried on by this force during the year was 
the painting of the fence on the Washington Avenue and Flatbush 
Avenue sides of the Garden, about 3,600 ft.; construction of small 
brook, spring and bog in Section VI.; the building of a retaining 
wall near the northwest end of the lake; excavating the beds for 
the herbaceous garden on the central meadow; excavating for new 
water connection in Washington Avenue, and along the fence near 
it; building and sodding the banks along the upper end of the 
brook, when the latter area was turned over to us by the grading 
pwen 
