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and 2 apprentices to the propagating houses for the early part 
of the year, and later, 2 gardeners and 2 apprentices, 1 of the 
latter being withdrawn in July; 1 foreman-gardener, 4 gar- 
deners and the laborers to the work outside. 
The change in the force at the propagating houses was due 
to the resignation in March of the foreman-gardener at the 
conservatories. This necessitated a readjustment, and the 
foreman-gardener, Richard Richter, in charge of the propa- 
gating houses was promoted by transferral to the conserva- 
tories, being given oversight of the work at both places, a 
gardener from the conservatories taking charge of the details 
of the work at the propagating houses under his direction. 
The force for the outside work was divided as follows: 
museum tract, 2 laborers; conservatory tract, 1 gardener and 
I or 2 laborers; west border tract, 1 gardener and 1 laborer ; 
fruticetum tract, 1 gardener, 2 laborers and 1 apprentice; 
herbaceous grounds tract, 1 gardener and 4 laborers; for 
miscellaneous operations, including the care of the arbore- 
tum, scythe work and the cleaning of walks, 4 laborers. 
Upon the completion of gardening operations in the fall, 2 
of the gardeners were transferred to the consevatories. 
A large amount of new park planting was completed dur- 
ing the year. During January, trees of the swamp oak and 
of the sweet gum were transplanted from the vicinity to the 
borders of the road connecting the fruticetum with the north- 
ern entrance to the grounds. During the spring the follow- 
ing planting was done: the beds devoted to the honeysuckle 
and rose families, on opposite sides of the path from the mu- 
seum to the Harlem depot, were rearranged and thinned out, 
about one half the material being removed and used else- 
where; the rose bed near the Harlem depot was abandoned, 
as the surroundings required more conspicuous treatment, the 
rose bushes being distributed in the west border and other 
decorative collections, their place being taken by a miscella- 
neous collection of shrubs of the hydrangea family, obtained 
from elsewhere on the grounds; the forsythia and lilac bed on 
the south side of the depot plaza was rearranged, the surplus, 
