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of illustrative plantations have since been maintained, suitabl 
he in 
rseries, or collected from wild sources, or otherwise ob- 
tained ; new plots have been added from time to time; and various 
kinds of plants have been lost by dying out under climatal or 
soil conditions. Perennial species are selected for the most part 
unds. 
were to be seen in these several ete enter the season of 
1917, about the same number of kinds as in the past eight 
seasons. 
All three series of herbaceous plantations are susceptible of 
enlargement in the number of species grown; this could readily 
be doubled in the space available by introducing more hardy 
perennials and by growing many more kinds of annuals, selected 
from those grown in the flower-gardens about Conservatory Range 
I, and elsewhere, with additions. 
The establishment of many new plantations-during the past 
of about 140 acres added by the city to 's reservation 
in 1915, including the Rose Garden, Horticultural Gardens and 
Iris Garden, requires so much of ash, Head 
Gardener, and of his assistant, M , as to leave little 
from that position a few years ago, in charge of the Shakespeare 
