BULLETIN 
The New York Botanical Garden 
Vol. 8. No. 29. 
REPORT OF THE SECRETARY AND DIRECTOR- 
IN-CHIEF FOR THE YEAR 1912 
(Accepted and ordered printed, January 13, 1913) 
To THE Boarp or Manacers or THE New York 
BoTANICAL GARDEN. 
Gentlemen: I have the honor to submit herewith my 
report as Secretary and Director-in-Chief for the year 
ending January 13, 1913. 
Construction work has been continued during the year 
by means of city appropriations aggregating $49,800, made 
in 1911, and by small unexpended balances of previous city 
appropriations. No new city appropriations for construction 
were made during 1912. Some minor works were accom- 
plished by the labor force under pay from appropriations 
of Garden funds. 
Grading, drainage and the construction of additional 
paths have been continued; the additional greenhouse at 
public conservatory range no. 2, the contract for which was 
awarded late in 1911, was completed during the summer; 
work on the construction of the boundary fence and wall 
along the Bronx Boulevard on the eastern side of the grounds, 
commenced during the summer through a Park Department 
contract, has been continued and the work is now about 
one half completed, the contractor having been exceedingly 
dilatory and having already been favored by one extension 
of time; a pergola on the east side of the herbaceous garden 
has been under construction for several months and is about 
two thirds finished; two retaining walls at the Bedford 
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