(86) 
‘By means of a fund aggregating $10,357, generously 
subscribed by 148 members and friends, and designated 
the “Garden Extension and Commemoration Fund,” con- 
siderable preliminary work in the development of this 
additional land and in the renovation of the mansion has 
been accomplished, including the cutting out of dead 
trees and of stumps, the filling and draining of marshy 
areas, the partial construction of an unfinished driveway 
and the partial construction of paths, the breaking of loose 
stone, and the commencement of planting at several points. 
A complete survey and map of the additional tract has 
been prepared by the Landscape Engineer, who has also 
submitted a plan for roads and paths, which was approved 
at your meeting of November 18, 1915. he mansion was 
found to be greatly in need of repairs, many of which have 
been accomplished, including exterior and interior painting, 
new leaders and gutters, the reconstruction of porches, the 
furnishing and decoration of board rooms, and the installa- 
tion of a steam heating plant and of shops in the basement. 
The Twentieth Anniversary of the first appropriation of 
land was commemorated during the week commenced 
September 6 by a largely attended meeting of botanists 
from all over the eastern United States.* 
New construction and new planting have, for the most 
part, been confined to the additional land, but, in the early 
part of the year, some work was done in building paths and 
in grading near conservatory range 2, and a new rhodo- 
dendron group was planted at conservatory range 1 by the 
aid of the income of the John Innes Kane Fund. The 
development of the original reservation has not, by any 
means, been completed, construction work being yet re- 
quired near the museum building, about conservatory 
range 2, in an area of about 3 acres at the northern corner 
of the grounds, and additional paths are needed in other 
areas. An additional wing to the museum building and 
additional greenhouses at conservatory range 2 are much 
* See Jour. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 16: 203-219. 
