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On account of unfavorable soil, or lack of water during the 

 season of 1893, some plants died; among these were SoUdago 

 bicolor, S. lanceolata, Aster vimineus, A. dumosus, A. diffusns, 

 and A. patens; all of which have been replaced. 



Thus it appears that thirty-eight wild plants were added to the 

 garden during the season of 1894, including twenty ferns, five 

 golden-rods, and six asters ; also thirteen other flowering plants, 

 some of which were cultivated. 



The chairman of the School Garden Committee made a careful 

 selection of seeds of such cultivated plants as would be serviceable 

 for observation in a school garden. These were planted and re- 

 sulted in varieties of marigolds, larkspurs, foxgloves, snapdrag- 

 ons, morning-glories, pinks, and martynia, pepper, and egg plants. 

 She also sent a large collection of bulbs (tulip, hyacinth, crocus, 

 etc.), which were planted in November. 



In the spring of 1894, a friend sent several hundred plants 

 in pots, which were set around the flag-staff and in a number of 

 beds, and these plants made a fine display till frost came. 



Last fall, B. T. Newman, the Fryeburg (Maine) artist, sent 

 from Maine, to this school, a number of wild plants of varieties 

 that had not been in the garden before. 



A few hardy perennial plants, including phlox, iris, sueezeweed, 

 Frazer's primrose, and California sunflower, have been added. 



The eight varieties of hardy chrysanthemums previously intro- 

 duced have received three additions, and the abundance of their 

 blossoms in October was remarkable, in the opinion of the many 

 visitors who came to see them. The eleven varieties were exhib- 

 ited at the Annual Chrysanthemum Exhibition of this Society, and 

 for these a gratuity was awarded to the School Garden. 



" The Listener " of the " Boston Evening Transcript " mentioned 

 the collection thus : " One thing that well deserved attention and 

 admiration was the collection from the George Putnam School. 

 Those were mostly little fellows, of course — pretty ' Brown Bobs,' 

 ' gold buttons,' and the like ; very natural and lovely. The 'Mrs. 

 Seaver,' in this collection, was a lovely white, and a typical chrys- 

 anthemum, though small." 



Besides these hardy chrysanthemums, and the many wild and 

 cultivated plants mentioned in previous reports, the garden now 

 contains some families of native wild plants, which are represented 

 by a considerable number of species ; and among them are four- 

 teen golden-rods, eighteen asters, and twenty-nine ferns. 



