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garden south to the iris garden, a red cedar fence is in 
progress of construction, posts for this fence having been set 
during the autumn over a distance of about goo feet. 
Part of the posts and the railings for this fence were ob- 
tained from a fence built some years ago along the southern 
border of the old reservation, where it is not now necessary 
nor desirable; the rest of the material needed was obtained 
from cedar logs, which have been saved and stacked from 
time to time, and it is thus not necessary to purchase any 
material; while not a permanent structure, this fence will 
serve a most useful purpose in protecting the area which it 
bounds; a suitable entrance has been provided south of the 
herbaceous garden. 
e report of the Superintendent of Buildings and 
Grounds hereto appended contains additional details re- 
lative to construction and maintenance. 
Plants and Planting 
The older plantations, including the herbaceous garden, 
the economic garden, flower gardens and borders, fruti- 
cetum, arboretum, aad pinetum, have been vanonsly 
modified in detail; species not before represented have been 
added to the collections, and some have been lost. Special 
attention has been given to the trees; large additions were 
made to the magnolia collection in the spring and to the 
collection of poplars in the autumn, by the expenditure of a 
portion of the income of the ion Innes Kane Fund. 
survey of the trees of the Garden, made during the year 
by the Head Gardener, shows that 621 different species 
and varieties are now represented in the collections and 
woodlands, not including trees grown under glass nor in- 
cluding shrubs; the tree collection is thus coming to be 
noteworthy, and some of the exotic species first planted 
have attained considerable size. It is proposed to increase 
this collection during 1917, both in the number of individual 
trees and by such of the rarer kinds not yet included which 
may be obtained, and also to make the various groups more 
