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Plants and Planting 
Planting, in accordance with the general plan of develop- 
ment, has been continued as rapidly as the grading operations 
have been finished in various parts of the grounds, much 
having been accomplished during the past autumn. This 
has included additions to the herbaceous garden, the eco- 
nomic garden, the ornamental flower gardens, the fruticetum, 
the arboretum and the pinetum, and also the planting of many 
trees and shrubs along the driveways and paths and in the 
boundary borders. A new boundary border was formed 
along the new fence from the elevated railway approach 
eastward to the Southern Boulevard, and preparation was 
made for planting an additional herbaceous border at the 
elevated railway station. 
The labeling of the plants, both in the out-door collections 
and in the public conservatories, has made very salisfactory 
progress, about 4,700 new labels having been prepared, as 
appears from the report of the Head Gardener, herewith sub- 
mitted, and to which reference is made for further details of 
the work of his department. 
Contributions of money for the purchase of plants, credited 
to the ‘* Conservatory Fund,” have been received during the 
year as follows: 
John D. Archbold $100 
H. C. Fahnestock 100 
C. N. Bliss 50 
Mrs. Birdseye Blakeman ....... 10 
Hemlock Grove 
I have not carried out the recommendation made in my last 
annual report that the trails and paths in the hemlock grove 
be fenced, in order to restrict visitors to well defined lines of 
travel, owing to the objection which properly exists to any 
construction which might detract from the natural beauty of 
this woodland. Large printed notices were placed at the en- 
trances to the grove requesting visitors to keep to the paths 
and trails and not to injure the trees in any way, and these 
