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cultural interest. An account of this collection will appear in the 
Recorp for January, 1913. 
During the fall the Garden also secured from Rochester 
about 130 species of shrubs and trees new to our collections. 
This was arranged as an exchange between the Board of Park 
Commissioners of Rochester and the Garden, and our obliga- 
tion to that board is very great. The collection is a very repre- 
sentative one botanically, including 13 species of willows. These 
two collections, from Rochester and the Arnold Arboretum, are 
very important to the Garden, and will serve as the basis of the 
general systematic series. 
Besides the planting of all this material, the gardeners have 
taken care of the collections already in place and such other 
general horticultural operations as have come up. ‘Twenty species 
of hardy water-lilies were put in the lake in the spring, and 
nearly 45 species of willows were planted along the line of the 
brook, according to plans outlined by Mr. Caparn and myself. 
Several hundred herbaceous plants have been raised from seed 
for the general systematic collections to be installed next year. 
Tentative Plans for General Systematic Collections 
On August 10 I attended a conference with yourself and 
Messrs. Olmsted and Caparn in relation to the permanent plant- 
ing scheme of the general systematic collections. Immediately 
afterward I submitted, as a working basis, an outline for her- 
baceous plants that we wish to cultivate in the Garden, including 
data as to number of species, families, and orders, and an es- 
timate of the space needed for each. A similar estimate was 
prepared for the woody plants, and both of these are now under 
consideration by Mr. Caparn with a view to making up a per- 
manent planting plan. As soon as this plan is perfected it will 
be possible to make such beds as we have plants for, and plant 
all of the woody plants for which we can properly prepare the 
ground, 
I regret to report the death of two large palms and two 
large screw-pines, which were killed by the frost owing to the 
non-completion of the greenhouses. 
