Extensive Improvements Planned for Yard Plantations

The excavations which have been made in the Yard around the Widener Library are to receive plantations of shrubbery which are to be put in according to a general plan both for treating the surroundings of the Library itself and for improving and to some extent re-arranging all the minor plantations in the Yard. In addition to these preparations, and also according to a plan for the gradual development of the shade-tree plantations, pits of new loam have been prepared in anticipation of putting in new trees, probably red oaks and elms.

The holes are dug at this season because other work is slack, and because when the ground is frozen on the surface and the frost does not go too deep, less damage is done to the lawns and turf, and the digging is scarcely less difficult than at another season.