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Plants and Planting 
Much progress has been made with out-of-door planting 
during the spring and autumn in the arboretum, in the 
fruticetum, in the herbaceous grounds valley, in the flower 
garden, in the boundary borders and along the driveways. 
A feature of the herbaceous planting in the autumn was 
the setting of over twenty thousand bulbs of a large number 
of species in the flower gardens and boundary borders. 
These should afford a very attractive flower display in the 
early spring. The greenhouse collections have also been 
materially and satisfactorily increased, the most noteworthy 
accession being the large representative collection of cac- 
tuses and other desert plants obtained by Dr. J. N. Rose, 
who accompanied the scientific expedition of the United 
States Fish Commission steamer ‘Albatross’? to Lower 
California, organized by the American Museum of Natural 
History. Many West Indian species not heretofore repre- 
sented in our collections have been obtained by the several 
trips of exploration made to that region during the 
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The display labeling of plants both under glass and out- 
of-doors has proceeded uninterruptedly, several thousand 
additional labels having been painted. A source of annoy- 
ance in this connection has been the repeated thefts of 
lead labels from shrubs and trees, which has gone so far 
as to discourage the use of lead for this purpose, which is 
regrettable, because it makes by far the most attractive and 
permanent label. An anonymous gift of $100 from a kind 
friend of the Garden enabled us to do more out-door 
labeling than would otherwise have been possible. 
The collection of Japanese cherry trees presented by 
Mrs. Florence L. Sturgis was planted in the early spring 
in proximity to the collection of cherry trees in the arbore- 
tum. Very fine healthy plants were secured, which im- 
mediately flowered profusely and were viewed with great 
pleasure by many visitors. 
Contributions of money for the purchase of plants, 
