< > 1 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z B cypher sketch for top of gate B. H. Blackwell Ltd. See also Dulau's Dept. of Blackwell's Ltd. Jekyll books not received from offering Gardens of China price for book, held in reserve B. T. Batsford Ltd. (bookseller) order for Sweeney hoping IMS can cancel order from Vanvitelli book order cancelled with B Terrace. See terrace B Bach (Oscar) Studios, bid for North Vista iron railing by Back Engraving Company, Philadelphia postcards for DO and Backus, Edythe N. Catalogue of music in the Huntington Library printed before 1801 details of when sent to DO publication announcement Bacon, Francis Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral marked X (fair) Of gardens: an essay to compare with Harvard Landscape Library's copy of marked X (fair) suggested for DO Bacon, Virginia and Bob silver wedding anniversary party for The Badianus manuscript (Codex Barberini, Latin 241) Vatican Library: an Aztec herbal of 1552 / introduction, translation and annotations by Emily Walcott Emmart (Cruz) marked X (fair) Badineau. See Cruz, Martín de la Baer, Elizabeth suggested as cataloguer for DO Bagatelle et ses Jardins. See also Vues Pittoresques, Plans, etc. Des Principaux Jardins Anglois qui sont en France Feb. 1949 list June 1949 list in Mrs. Clark's custody Bailey (Liberty Hyde) Hortorium, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Bailey, Liberty Hyde Cultivated conifers in North America marked X (fair) Cyclopedia of American horticulture: comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches BF on nomenclature from to compare with Harvard Landscape Library in DO Garden Library Feb. 1949 list in Garden Guide office June 1949 list need for Catalogue House set of The garden of larkspurs, with decorations in DO Garden Library Feb. 1949 list June 1949 list ordered from Woodburn received from Woodburn recommended by Mass. Hort. librarian The garden of pinks: with decorations in DO Garden Library Feb. 1949 list June 1949 list marked X (fair) ordered from Woodburn received from Woodburn as horticulturalist and botanist Hortus; a concise dictionary of gardening, general horticulture and cultivated plants in North America marked XXX and owned by Arnold Arboretum suggested for DO Hortus second: a concise dictionary of gardening, general horticulture and cultivated plants in North America account of payment for added to MxF Library at Reef Point to compare with Harvard Landscape Library in constant use at Reef Point Gardens in Garden Guide office June 1949 list marked XXX and owned by Arnold Arboretum on nightblooming cereus ordered for Sweeney's use with Catalogue House displays rev. ed., Feb. 1949 list rev. ed., in DO Garden Library as source for plant pictures suggested for DO Sweeney on need for in Sweeney's office usefulness as garden reference How plants get their names account of payment for BF enjoying and will send on to Sweeney BF sending to Sweeney in DO Garden Library June 1949 list in Sweeney's office Manual of cultivated plants: most commonly grown in the continental United States and Canada added to MxF Library at Reef Point June 1949 list, handwritten addition marked X (fair) received at DO The Cultivated evergreens: a handbook of the coniferous and most important broad-leaved evergreens planted for ornament in the United States and Canada bought for DO by BF in DO Garden Library Feb. 1949 list June 1949 list marked X (fair) ordered from Fiedler Sweeney's 1948 research on The pruning manual ordered from Mass. Hort. Library recommended by Mass. Hort. librarian The standard cyclopedia of horticulture: a discussion, for the amateur, and the professional and commercial grower, of the kinds, characteristics and methods of cultivation of the species of plants grown in the regions of the United States and Canada for ornament, for fancy, for fruit and for vegetables; with keys to the natural families and genera, descriptions of the horticultural capabilities of the states and provinces and dependent islands, and sketches of eminent horticulturists (6 vols.) in DO Rare Book Room 1941 marked XXX and owned by Arnold Arboretum suggested for DO in Sweeney's office Bailey, Worth Parkyn's 1797 aquatint of Mount Vernon offered by Bailie, Margaret Henderson (Mrs. Earle) planting record book and BF suggestions on how to proceed with RP suggests her assistance with Bailie, Mrs. on Max Farrand possibly at Century Club Bailyn, Howard Bain (James) Limited (bookseller) Lilies of the World (Woodcock and Stern) ordered from London bookseller used by BF titles received at DO from titles received at Reef Point and sent to DO Baird, Bruce as reference for Edna Strong Johnson Baker, Anne on BF tribute at DO MB asks about Havey's inscription work for update to MB on Havey's inscription design visiting DO gardens Baker, C. H. Collins inquiry about visa for invalid daughter in England by Jacobean room acquisition for H.E.H. and RB on visas from England and daughter of Baker, Francis arm broken in fall by BF on prospects after in orthopedic rehabilitation center returning to work salary of, 1944-45 budget and balancing Bartlett work with as offset to Bartlett Co. tree work unlikely to be able to resume former work tragedy of and wife Baker, J. G. Handbook of the Irideae marked XX (good) Baker, John as DORL Executive Committee member Balch, Earle H. balcony for Arbor Terrace seat for Herb Garden brackets center panel elevations and sections floor railing seat for Swimming Pool corbels railings for terrace D west wall baldachins (canopies) above seat on stair landing between Rose Garden and Flower Garden Baldwin, R. McClelland, Mrs. Ballentine, J. W., Mr. and Mrs. balm for British scented garden for the blind balsam Camellia-flowered Salmon seeds invoice Camellia-flowered white seeds invoice Salmon King seeds invoice seeds order for Trivett's seeds orders white perfection seeds order for Trivett's seeds orders Baltimora annua Baltimore Flower Show DO exhibits in March 1936 at Gray on showing specimens at MB, Bryce, and Crampton at MB on Gray showing plants at balustrades above arches in Loggia for Arbor Garden on Agenda of April 15th concrete, to meet wood arbor elevations RH checking on yew hedge removal to see design for RH wants to make decisions at DO on sketch of for Loggia, design of for Mediterranean Highway, finishing with tablet in center for Urn Terrace for terrace B Balzan, Consuelo wanting to know how to work for France in World War II bamboo. See also Bambusa to be removed at Casa Dorinda Sweeney welcoming talk references to thinned at DO Bamboo garden (Freeman-Mitford) marked X (fair) bamboo iron seat, usability of bamboo tables and chairs count of shipped to DO Bambusa bamboo Lovers' Lane Pool east along walk between R St. wall and 31st St. entrance, p.19 East Lawn East Lawn, incl. wilderness, Gothic gardens, and Corkalockie walk to Orangery at Lovers' Lane Pool, p.32 Lovers' Lane to Wilderness Sweeney's garden talk notes about Bambusa simoni Baptisia australis blue, to be sown summer of 1922 Baptisia tinctoria at rear of Fellows' Quarters near Bryce's office, laundry &c., p.28 Bar Harbor, Maine. See also Reef Point fire in BF on future of town and IMS's description of Mrs. Young's rain water tank moved to Reef Point after Information Bureau, Reef Point flowers sent weekly to Jesup Memorial Library of, Benjamin Franklin (Farrand) given to Leavitt's visit to Bar Harbor Times Reef Point Gardens notices in Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association (V.I.A.) as potential Reef Point owner Reef Point disposition and barberry. See also under Berberis near Terrior Column Barbour, Thomas Naturalist at large received by MxF Memorial Library That Vanishing Eden, A Naturalist's Florida received by MxF Memorial Library Barclay, Dorothy A book of South African flowers (with Bolus and Steer) marked XX (good) Bardswell, Frances A. The herb garden marked X (fair) Seacoast Gardens and Gardening marked X (fair) Baring, Maurice Forgetmenot and lily of the valley marked X (fair) Barlow, Ernesta and Sam Barnhart, John Hendley "European influence on American Botany" Barnsley, England, scented garden for the blind in Baroque Gardens of Austria (Jellicoe) BF recommends DO buy in DO Garden Library in DO Rare Book Room 1941 Feb. 1949 list June 1949 list marked XX (good) in Sweeney's office Barrett, C. Waller Barrière, Dominicus Villa Aldobrandina Tusculana sive varij illius hortorum et fontium prospectus June 1949 list, handwritten addition rarity of received at DO sending to DO Barrows Company Landscape with Shrubs were two copies ordered? Barr's (garden supply), catalogue to be sent to Sweeney by Barthou-Mirabeau Myers's estimate for restoration of notes on Myers's repairs for returned to DO by Myers Bartlett Tree Company budget for 1944-45 for Baker no longer on DO staff and balancing Baker's work with BF gratitude for increase in BF on allocations to Bryce on increased to $1000 from $800 as less than in the past Bartram, E. B. mosses identification and Bartram, John book by, sent to MB Travel through North and South Carolina, Georgia, etc. Paul on first edition of received at DO Baruch (Paul L.), Inc. Baruch, Bernard DO meetings on rubber situation during World War II and Basil, Emperor ceiling art in Church of the Holy Apostles, Constantinople for Bassett, Richard H. on Blisses' contribution to Contingency Fund for Barbara Blisses' support during Barbara's year of ill health of Bastien, Jean-François La flore jardinière: contenant la description de toutes les plantes, tant indigènes qu'exotiques, cultivées en France… recommended by Mass. Hort. librarian Bathon, L. W., Mrs. bathtub. See marble bathtub Batsford (B. T.) Ltd. (bookseller) order for Sweeney hoping IMS can cancel order from Vanvitelli book order cancelled with Batsford, Harry The English Cottage (with Fry) added to MxF Library at Reef Point June 1949 list received at DO Batson, Henrietta M. A book of the country and the garden received by MxF Memorial Library The summer garden of pleasure marked XX (good) batterboards widening of terrace B and removal of Bauer, Edward Heilpflanzen-Taschenbush (with Oertel) in Sweeney's office Bauer, Franz Andreas Erica (Kew Plants) to be shipped to DO later to come Myers's estimate for restoration of notes on Myers's repairs for packed for shipping via Railway Express paper and leather choices for returned for further instructions returning for MB to choose leather and paper for taken by Myers for restoration Bauhinia Washington climate and Bawell, Ruth A. Bayard, Henry, Mrs. BF in Philadelphia with Bayer, Dr. Heitz MB on assistance to BF by Baynes, Crowell wanting to study plant development at DO Beale, Mary on Van Yahres's work at Clifton Beale, Mrs. death of Beall, George Beall, Ninian Clan MacGregor descendents of deeds lost in 1704 for on historic tablet Rock of Dumbarton land grant from Queen Anne to Beall, Thomas Beall, W. M., Mrs. Beals, Jessie Tarbox request to photograph DO by, refused Bean, Miss belated farewell from BF to big inventory and Bean, William Jackson landscape design books of, Sweeney's 1948 research on Ornamental trees for amateurs marked XX (good) Shrubs for amateurs marked XX (good) Trees and shrubs hardy in the British Isles to compare with Harvard Landscape Library marked XXX (excellent) suggested for DO Wall Shrubs and Hardy Climbers marked XX (good) bean seeds Black Valentine Bountiful Burpee's Imp. seeds Fordhook seeds Hendersons seeds King of the Garden seeds Masterpiece seeds Plentiful Red Valentine Stringless Green Pod Tendergreen Beatrix Farrand, Agent accounting system for BF further describing bills from book account balance on hand to be paid by BF to be turned over to RP consolidated with Agent account deposits received to cover Oct. through May MB to send check for in MB's name nothing spent from question of future of City and Kentia Nurseries order by comments on balance in first half of 1947 second half of 1942 second half of 1943 second half of 1944 second half of 1946 deposit account $150 for bulbs, seeds, and plants $200 to be sent after April 1st to $325 for bulbs and book fund balance for books, BF wanting to keep balance for spring 1947 bulbs? to be transferred to BF's account with Harvard book account consolidated with comments on leave as is until April discussions need for replenishment of? overdrawn after bulbs payment request for $100 request for $150 request for $200 request for $250 request for $850 revision to delayed for few days deposit account balance for spring-1947-blooming bulbs JT wanting to discuss proposal of discounts for landscape materials through draughting drinking cups for DO visitors and field work. See field work Gillum Tree Co. landscaping bill to go to invoices to Harvard to be delivered on time date JT needs for summer 1945 half-yearly, 1941 half-yearly, 1942 half-yearly, 1943 half-yearly, 1944 half-yearly, 1945 half-yearly, 1946 half-yearly, 1947 half-yearly, 1948 half-yearly, 1949 JT approving JT inquiry about JT needs first half of 1947 receipt of statements outlined and to be posted Sweeney's expenses to be paid by BF transmittal letter for JT asks for balance of, to close BF on insufficiency of for landscape plans' storage BF transmittal to JT of and to buy filing cabinets for landscape plans as sensible, MB on JT transmittals to $100 for flowers for JT $100 for Sweeney's Reef Point trip, etc. $150 for bulbs and seeds for $200 $200 for bulbs and seeds for $430, Stover acknowledgement of $850 and $8.86 $850 for July 1944 to Dec. 1944 for $129.61 for half-year ending Dec. 1945 short delay in Maine Central Railroad payment by office expenses. See office expenses office work. See office work prints fund check not sent, IMS resending MB to give $25 for MB will give $25 for in MB's name money to be sent to Sweeney from professional services. See professional services receipts for $100 for $100, some owed to BF, balance applied to for $100 for Sweeney's Reef Point trip, and for bulbs for $150 for $200 for $250 for $300 check received from JT for to pay for teak benches teak benches to be paid by transfers to professional services account from travel expenses. See travel expenses Les beautés de la France (Fer) in DO Garden Library in DO Rare Book Room 1941 Feb. 1949 list June 1949 list in Mrs. Clark's custody Beautiful and rare trees & plants (Annesley) marked X (fair) Beautiful flowers and how to grow them (Wright and Wright) ordered from Fiedler Beautiful gardens in America (Shelton) marked X (fair) Beauty from Bulbs (Scheepers) Feb. 1949 list in Garden Guide office Bebout (at Casa Dorinda) to be let go to be urged to work expeditiously as garden helper tree work by Bechtel, Edwin DeT. Our Rose Varieties and their Malmaison Heritage received by MxF Memorial Library Beckett, Edwin, as gardener to Mrs. Reid bed-sets "L'agréable lecon" monochrome in mauve from copperplate monochrome in rose from copperplate Apotheosis of Franklin and Victory of Washington "L'art d'aimer" monochrome in mauve from copperplate monochrome in rose from copperplate "Les arts" "Le Char de L'Aurore" "Four Elements" "Maison Brulante" "Panurge dans L'ile des Lanterns" "Scenes Antiques" beech. See also Beech Terrace; under Fagus American, beauty in autumn of Sweeney's garden talk notes about Beech Terrace beech tree Bryce on grading and demise of death of early view view of, with east wall and stone benches view south beech tree borer Bryce on feeding to cure Patterson will have tree expert assess tree pathologist needed for BF notes on no suggestions for peacock for wall of box to be omitted on either side of walk in BF agrees with but will reserve personal opinion on boxwood overgrown in Bryce has buyer for sale has gone through for should be moved and replanted should be moved under BF's direction should be sold smaller scale replacements for where should it go and how replaced? photograph of, as hopeless looking red clay planting plans plantings in, p.44 plantings in, p.46 plantings to Loggia from, p.44 steps from Box Terrace to, McLeod & Romborg Stone Co. proposal for stool table for swing seat drawings of iron canopy with bird design simplification of detail in walkway and steps to Rose Garden walkway at top of steps leading to Urn Terrace walkway between Green Garden walkway down to terrace overlooking Pebble Garden west wall with gate into Green Garden bees, JT wanting BF's opinion on Bees and Wasps (Latter) Feb. 1949 list June 1949 list in Sweeney's office Beestes, for English Tudor gardens (1530 to 1600), Hopkins needs illustration of beet seeds, order for The Beginner's Garden (King) bought for DO by BF in DO Garden Library Feb. 1949 list June 1949 list ordered ordered from Argosy received from Argosy Begonia prismatocarpa plants wanted from Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh of Beijerinck, W., Monograph on Calluna (Dutch) added to MxF Library at Reef Point Les bejour antiques (Amandry) Myers's estimate for restoration of Belgium, landscape architecture society in Belknap, Walter Phoenix, Jr. Bell, Gertrude, letter from Aleppo on Riha-Stouma treasure by Bell, Ninian. See Beall, Ninian Bella, Stefano della (artist) Descrizione della regia villa, fontane e fabbriche de Pratolino in DO Garden Library Feb. 1949 list June 1949 list Fantane, e Fabbriche di Pratolino (Pratolino, views of the gardens (6 engraved plates)) in DO Garden Library Belle Greene sent "Ten Centuries of Flowers" Bellis, seeds order pure white red rose Bellis perennis invoice Monstrosa red seeds Monstrosa rose seeds seeds order Snowball seeds Beloeil, Chateau de BF would like Coup d'Oeil sur Beloeil about MB on beauty of potential landscape architecture hostel at Beloil, Belgium International Federation of Landscape Architects on landscape gardeners and castle in Bemberg Silk, Byzantine, MB on envy and bench terrace, JT's uncertainty about walls for benches and seats for Arbor Terrace in arch of south elevation in balcony east wall, designed itself east wall, RH to make quick decision on design for bamboo iron, usability of for Beech Terrace, simplification of in Bosquet under construction Lank promised for Aug. 31 RH asking Lank to put aside work on for Box Terrace dimensions for drawings needed for top rail of south end, little stones spread under building form in storage yard for Caroline platform clarifying inscription details for forsythia arch, William platform seat and forsythia arch and inscription for forsythia arch design and Cherry Hill kidney-shaped bench near slope of for cortile, not done but Davis reports headway on them Didymus under construction Lank promised for Sept. 30 RH asking Lank to put aside work on in DO Park placement of, and funding question possible gift and placement of for dogs at the kennels for East Lawn, of Doria to replace of marble for Ellipse design of newly placed, drain drenching of north side, dummy should be made for for Elm Terrace south of Pebble Garden for Forsythia walk. See forsythia seats kidney-shaped wood bench seat II in wood stone bench for Fountain Terrace for front door for Hazel walk, inscriptions for for Herb Garden arbor seat and chair for Herbaceous Border or Garden Mr. Yew seat with inscription from Dante's Purgatorio for Kitchen Garden grape arbor on landing between Rose Garden and Flower Garden for Lilac Circle designs existing, low wall and material and placement questions MB awaiting designs for semi-circular for Loggia, of stone BF has sketches, RH to await April visit designed and in Coles's hands for execution "eared," against wall west of have legs been recut? MB on simplification of bulbous supports to new Havey sketches remodelling side bulges of standards of RH invoice Oct. 1 to Nov. 30, 1940 for sketches to be sent simplifying marble to move from Green Garden to office-Music Room wall on Orangery terrace, needs metal reinforcement for Melisande's Allee put aside due to other challenges for Museum cortile, need sketches for for Museum entrance niche for Music Room terrace curved benches for Music Room wall-office side Coles estimate for as inactive RH project marble, to move from Green Garden to for North Vista in Doria, Coles to finish in Doria, notes to be continued on Monday end of, RH outline of estimates for work on in marble platform, teak for? Steinbraker's estimate for for Orchard or Orchard Hill for Pebble Garden for representative photo of DO gardens for Swimming Pool and Loggia in loggia north of swimming pool along west wall swinging. See also benches and seats, Terrior Column swing to be in place for warm weather in Beech Terrace, drawings for in Beech Terrace, simplification of detail in iron canopy with bird design for Beech Terrace and table, for the court, sketch of teak (English) arrival of authorizing Russell to pay for BF on purchasing details for cost estimate and size availability MB wanting name of firm and prices for payment to Chase National Bank for for Tennis Court for terrace B for terrace E arbor seat and chair Terrior Column aconite blooming by backs of? brace at, and roughening of roof Curlicue deferring questions for face-to-face visit on designs for full size model needed for grading and height of on hold until cases for Exhibition Room done MB awaiting designs for Pagoda-type, estimate accepted Pagoda-type, RH, Kearney, and MB efforts on probably now finished RH agreeing to proceed with construction of RH to complete sketches of Steinbraker's estimate for table-bench for use in summer of 1938 wood for, to be completed wooden, completed and in place would wood slats for back do until war's end? Terrior Column swing Aesop's Fables and uprights for Aesop's Fables characters as finials for roof bench as replacement for seat as clumsy and uncomfortable Coles's estimates for Coles's on directions seats face for design considerations for drawings for MB approves Coles's completion of nearly ready not to be postponed plan for new legs on price of public visitors and placement of as second priority what is look of? William platform clarifying inscription details for forsythia arch, Caroline platform seat and forsythia arch and inscription for forsythia arch design and for Wisteria Arbor falling apart, replacement of falling apart, Steinbraker can repair yew, design for Benjamin, Mary Liszt letters offered for sale to MB by Benjamin Franklin's Memoirs (Farrand, ed.). See also Franklin, Benjamin details of when sent to DO given to MxF Library at Reef Point ordered for MB publication announcement Bennett, A. W. Flora of the Alps marked XX (good) Bennett, Whitman Parkyn's 1797 aquatint of Mount Vernon offered by Benson, Nettie N. Bentham, George The student's flora (with Hooker) marked X (fair) Bentley, Ruth E. ?? Bartleby?? Barthly?? provides contact information for Chase at Fogg Museum Benzoin aestivale in the Copse in the Copse, p.37 on Mélisande's Allée, p.32 northwest of Mrs. Clark's cottage, p.26 on path to paint house from Mrs. Clark's path, p. 26 pool to Lovers' Lane gate S. D. No. 13 on service road to rock wall near Hazel Walk, p.35 at Superintendent's Cottage, p.29 Béquinot, A. Flora padovana; ossia, Prospetto floristico e fitogeografico delle piante vascolari … may contain information on Cattrani Berberis aquifolium. See also Mahonia aquifolium for R Street border S. E. No. 7 Berberis darwinii Iris Hill - Ellipse to Branch East of Forsythia Hill from Iris Hill to bird walk and steps to cherry hill, p.31 Berberis japonica rubrum red Japanese barberry Berberis julianae Iris Hill - Ellipse to Branch East of Forsythia Hill Berberis sargentiana or sargentii Iris Hill - Ellipse to Branch East of Forsythia Hill from Iris Hill to bird walk and steps to cherry hill, p.31 from Terrior Column to entrance gate, right side, p.52 Berberis thunbergii at Butler's Cottage on Crabapple Hill on Crabapple Hill, p.43 at Fellows' Quarters center courtyard entrance, p.27 at Fellows' Quarters west apartment courtyard, p.28 Iris Hill - Ellipse to Branch East of Forsythia Hill from Iris Hill to bird walk and steps to cherry hill, p.31 Berberis verruculosa Iris Hill - Ellipse to Branch East of Forsythia Hill from Iris Hill to bird walk and steps to cherry hill, p.31 Berberis vulgaris Iris Hill - Ellipse to Branch East of Forsythia Hill from Iris Hill to bird walk and steps to cherry hill, p.31 Berenson, Bernard Blisses' letter of introduction for Sessions to Berés, Pierre (bookseller) BF's comments on catalogue of list of, received at DO list of, returned to Willgoose rare books lists of Berge, Pieter van den Theatrum hispaniae, exhibens regni urbes, villas ac viridaria magis illustria… BF suggests for DO Garden Library marked XXX (excellent) Bergstrom, Edward Berkshire Garden Center, Stockbridge, Mass. BF has made suggestions and corrections for Sweeney's letter to BF suggests Sweeney visit BF wanting to know when to expect Sweeney's expanded letter to BF's review of Sweeney's questionnaire to draft questionnaire for, sent to BF for review proposed questionnaire for Sweeney dreading writing to Berlèse, Lorenzo Iconographie du genre Camellia; ou, Description et figures des camellia les plus beaux et les plus rares: peints d'après nature dans les serres et sous la direction de M. l'abbé Berlèse BF advises against purchasing June 1949 list Berliner, Rudolph Ornamentale Vorlage-Blätter des 15. bis 18. Jahrhunderts in DO Rare Book Room 1941 in Mrs. Clark's custody Bernadotte, Folke, murder of Bernard M. Rosenthal, Inc. (bookseller) MB avoids the Steerbeck, but asks about the Gerard Herbal MB inspects and buys two books from MB refuses offer of Byzantine early and first editions from sending Parke-Bernet Galleries auction catalog to MB Vanvitelli's Dichiarazione bought from offered by Bernard Quaritch Ltd. (bookseller) BF suggests seeking Les Roses and Les liliacées by Redouté from books ordered from account of payment to Harvard for 3 books Boyceau and Hill as excellent purchases from bought and books should arrive soon MB agrees to comments on books purchased from English garden books ordered for Sweeney from on finding and price for Redouté folios IMS asked to check on order of Dykes' Iris from Jekyll books ordered from lost Redouté, bought Repton and Millais through MB on ordering Repton's Fragments from Ornamental Perennials (Loudon) offered by Paradisi en Sole (Parkinson) offered by price of sent to DO sent to Reef Point and then to DO Sotheby's sale 4/4/1949 and MB on bidding in Bernisches Historisches Museum, Berne, Switzerland Berrall, Mr. early DO surveys by survey for kitchen garden, 1926 on walk from Rose Terrace to tennis court Berry College, Georgia, DO photographs used in lecture at Besse, Antonin Bettinger, Edith Betts, Edwin Morris. See Jefferson, Thomas Betula alba glutinosa T.D. No. 14 Betula alba laciniata T.D. No. 13 Betula alba verrucosa T.D. No. 15 Betula glandulosa at Reef Point Beverley, James Bradshaw Beverley, John Bradshaw Beverley, Robert Beverly Hills Park Commission, Van Rensselaer and Bexhill-on-Sea, England, scented garden for the blind in Beyer, Wilhelm Bildsaulen und Wasserspiele des kais marked XX (good) bible, Harrsen monograph on Nekcsei-Lipócz version of Bible Plants for American Gardens (King) in DO Garden Library in DO Rare Book Room 1941 Feb. 1949 list June 1949 list in Mrs. Clark's custody La Bibliofila (Libri antichi e moderni), Marzoli as administrative delegate of Bibliographical Microfilm Center, Philadelphia Bibliography of Cultivated Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the Cooler Temperate Regions of the Northern Hemisphere (Rehder) added to MxF Library at Reef Point June 1949 list received at DO A Bibliography of Eastern Asiatic Botany (Merrill and Walker) in DO Garden Library in DO Rare Book Room 1941 Feb. 1949 list June 1949 list in Mrs. Clark's custody Bibliography of English works on gardening (Cecil) in DO Garden Library in DO Rare Book Room 1941 Feb. 1949 list June 1949 list marked XXX (excellent) in Mrs. Clark's custody Bibliography of Gardening (Warner) marked XX (good) Biblioteque Nationale no microfilm available for Bibliotheca hortensis: vollständige garten-bibliothek (Dochnahl) marked XXX (excellent) Bickley, George W. L. Physiological and scientific botany: being a concise treatise on structural and systematic botanical science, as adopted by modern botanists, simplified and carefully arranged for the use of colleges and private students first edition ordered from Argosy ordered from Argosy Bicocque, Blisses arranging for Bidens chryrsanthemoides Ann. No. 9 Bierne, Mary McDermott Big Trees (Fry and White) in DO Garden Library Feb. 1949 list in Garden Guide office June 1949 list in Sweeney's office Big Trees of the Giant Forest (Stewart) marked X (fair) Biggs, Clinton, Mrs. Biggs, Marguerite Tweedy (Mrs. James) Bignonia on terrace D along east wall, p.49 Bildsaulen und Wasserspiele des kais (Beyer) marked XX (good) Bindt, Julia A Handbook of the Blind Bio-Dynamic Farming and Gardening (Pfeiffer) in DO Garden Library Feb. 1949 list June 1949 list in Sweeney's office bird bath. See also bird pool Doria, in forsythia circle finding position on east side of office for gray marble, in Reef Point Gardens sketch of fountain with staking area outside Mediterranean Highway and Bird Club of Bar Harbor Bird Flight (Aymar) in DO Garden Library Feb. 1949 list June 1949 list in Sweeney's office Bird neighbors. An introductory acquaintance with one hundred and fifty birds commonly found in the gardens, meadows, and woods about our homes (Blanchan) in DO Garden Library Feb. 1949 list June 1949 list in Sweeney's office bird pool. See also bird bath flat, in Doria stone, for 28th St. garden Bird Study Club, visit to DO gardens by bird walk plantings from Iris Hill to steps to cherry hill and, p.31 plantings on terrace between kitchen garden and steps at foot of, plantings to forsythia walk from steps at foot of, plantings to forsythia walk from, p.31 birds abundance at DO of in Catalogue House displays choices for Oct. 4, 1941 lead, repair of, to be discussed plates ordered from N.Y. State Museum of Birds of America (Audubon) in DO Garden Library Feb. 1949 list Garden City Publishing Co., in Garden Guide office in Garden Guide office June 1949 list Pearson, ed., in DO Garden Library in Sweeney's office Birds of California (Dawson) in DO Garden Library Feb. 1949 list June 1949 list in Sweeney's office Birds of California (Wheelock) Feb. 1949 list June 1949 list Birds of New York (Clarke) in Garden Guide office Birds of New York (Eaton) in DO Garden Library Feb. 1949 list June 1949 list Birds of the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden to be published in 1947 Birds of Village and Field (Merriam) in DO Garden Library Feb. 1949 list June 1949 list in Sweeney's office Birds that hunt and are hunted: life histories of one hundred and seventy birds of prey, game birds and water-fowls (Blanchan) in DO Garden Library Feb. 1949 list June 1949 list in Sweeney's office Bischoff, Mr. (Chase Brass & Copper Company) estimate for arbor in Arbor Terrace by Bissell, Ervanna Bowen Glimpses of Santa Barbara and Montecito Gardens in DO Garden Library in DO Rare Book Room 1941 Feb. 1949 list June 1949 list in Sweeney's office Santa Barbara Botanic Garden and Black House, Ellsworth, Maine Hancock County Trustees of Public Reservations and black locust Sweeney's garden talk notes about black oak. See Quercus velutina Black Tulip black walnut. See Juglans nigra Blackiston, Z. D., Mrs. Blackjack oak (Quercus marilandica) Nos. 74, 223 and 224 Blackmore & Langdon delphinium seed account of payment for account to Harvard of payment to invoice mail payment to seeds order Blackwell (B. H.) Ltd. See also Dulau's Dept. of Blackwell's Ltd. Jekyll books not received from offering Gardens of China price for book, held in reserve Blaikie, Thomas Diary of a Scotch gardener marked X (fair) Blair (Archibald) garden, Williamsburg, Va., plant list Blair (John) garden, Williamsburg, Va., plant list Blair, Mrs. MB offering lunch but refusing article on DO to be written by Blake, Prof. at DO plant list Blaksley Garden. See also Santa Barbara Botanic Garden meeting with Lassiter, Van Rensselaer and de Forest at as native plant garden separation from Santa Barbara Museum and renaming of Blaksley Library. See Santa Barbara Botanic Garden Blanchan, Neltje (also Blanchdon or Blanchen) Bird neighbors in DO Garden Library Feb. 1949 list June 1949 list in Sweeney's office Birds that hunt and are hunted: life histories of one hundred and seventy birds of prey, game birds and water-fowls in DO Garden Library Feb. 1949 list June 1949 list in Sweeney's office Nature's Garden in DO Garden Library Feb. 1949 list in Garden Guide office June 1949 list with prints in color in Sweeney's office Bland, Mrs. on correspondence from Leclerq on DO negatives at Reef Point negatives given to Sweeney to return to IMS by taking over for Miss Mason at DO Blandale, Walter G. The Cultivated Species of Primula added to MxF Library at Reef Point bleeding hearts, in bloom bleeding hearts for ironwork in quatrefoil gate south end of terrace D Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire (Green) received by MxF Memorial Library blind people achievements of DO concerts and Garden of Fragrance for in Brighton, England, article on in Brooklyn, New York design sent to Radcliffe College of DO paid RP's bill for design of Garden Club of America Bulletin article on general plan and section for, sent to MB to go in old Frame Yard of herbs, in Egypt, Massachusetts as inactive RH project Lady Rowan's research in England for in Lafayette Park, Los Angeles MB hoping RP has told BF of RP design for RP interest in Bliss, Anna Dorinda Blaksley death of inscription honoring memory of SBBG and Bliss, Leslie E. Bliss, Mildred. See also Bliss, Mildred and Robert; Santa Barbara Botanic Garden Annie's (DO staff) health and sorry for visited in hospital by BF Agent accounts in name of BF not coming to DO in spring 1946 JT on both he and BF telling MB of who to tell MB of? BF on Sweeney's readiness as guide and educator to BF relationship with BF grateful to visit in Boston by BF gratitude for depth of friendship of BF gratitude for Director's House visit by BF gratitude for telephone call from BF gratitude to MB for so many hours of common work BF noting "uniting section" between BF on first meeting of car to fetch BF at the El Encanto and Christmas letter to on handwritten notes from BF telephone talk with BF thanks to BF for improvements from oaks to upholstery BF travel plans for BF's death and subsequent tribute in A.S.L.A. quarterly BF's landscape plans and drawings of DO and BF on value, preservation, and use of gratitude for including correspondence in transfer to DO of on importance of Bryce and, prodding to respond to BF's letters Bryce's dogs transferred to Byzantine scholars visiting DO and Catalogue House and on color photographs for on DO transfer to Harvard and Sweeney's display work on enthusiasm for Sweeney's work on funding Sweeney's print-hunting in New York for cholera inoculation for mostly over reaction to reaction to on Christmas at DO Christmas check for Sweeney by Dickinson room in Houghton Library and asked for assistance with asking permission for public acknowledgement of her support for carpeting samples sent to Jackson grateful suggestions on not wishing her name to be emphasized in connection with offering funding of extra expenses for opinion on table from ED's house needed by photographs of model sent to ransacking her house and when in Boston for meeting on? DO chronology and DO gardens and on BF and Thacher DO meeting Jan. 17 BF on loose ends and organizing during absence of BF on making a garden where no garden was BF on postwar garden refurbishment and BF praise for design ideas of discussing summer 1937 DO garden notes with excitement about BF proposed box-garden scheme on gardens of fragrance for the blind on greenhouse closing on greenhouse cost sharing with Harvard Hopkins seeking approval for Camellia Garden installation from on landscape work unfinished prior to DO transfer to Harvard Museum cortile preliminary sketches forwarded to open garden day for Girl Scouts and plant identification need of RH potential conference with RH urgent need to discuss drawings with separate account to be kept of DO work done by would like BF letter on issues of in Calif. and not wait for return to DO by DO grounds policy report (1941) and approval of report to stand as written sent for approval to tentative DO Park Committee and DO Park planting plan for English garden tour by with Mrs. Moore fibula featured in Magazine of Art Friends of Huntington Library and on garden club talks and depth of detail in Garden Library and asked Mr. Russell to pay RP for cool house plans for book sent to Garden Center from BF by way of funding for reference prints and books by funding start of on garden books collection on space for garden plan from a church sent to BF gifts by of ‘clip' to RP for Christmas of blue and mauve bud vases for Farrands of cruet and flower glasses to BF of Emperor Charles V book to BF of eucalyptus trees' painting to Sweeney of Parkyn's 1797 aquatint of Mount Vernon of photostats of rare letters to Library of Congress to Santa Barbara Botanic Garden of scented pillow to BF of vases for Farrand's 25th anniversary gifts to of Cypripedium on orchids from Farrands as gift to DO of ostrich fan and silver wedding bowls gifts to SBBG endowment by Lassiter on in nick of time satisfaction after on structuring of Thorne's enthusiasm for trustees' acceptance of wiseness of on historic tablet preferred position for Hopkins to introduce Helen Van Pelt Wilson to in hospital BF trusts not too vexatious fatigue mostly illness of BF distressed about catching up on her correspondence after cricked elbow due to overdoing and underresting get well wishes from BF to must not use one foot severe flu and headcold sprained ankle in winter illness preventing communication with Calif. friends and anything JT can do to allow visit to Calif. by? asking JT regarding, after no word from yes to SBBG questions during Jellicoe on IFLA-sponsored school at Beloeil and funding for JT on need for rest by on JT's schedule not his own leaving DO, emotion on letterhead designs transmitted to Liszt letters offered for sale to London flower book exhibition catalogue of MB would love to have returned to MB should BF return to? MC Jones's gratitude for birthday wishes from MxF's death and BF's need to be alone after BF's need to hear from letters to BF and Clementine after new advisors for, BF on wise choices in new book and new houselet in Washington for New Year's greetings to Pacific states version of Rehder's Manual of cultivated trees and shrubs and idea of appeals to Patterson meeting with JT and BF as potential successor to BF, suggested mention of photograph of portrait in south corner of drawing room of photographs for DO staff of BF prods for BF suggests photographs of tennis court parterre progress and planting record book and reading pre-final copy of rereading option, Sweeney to find out about review of face copies by postcard choices of and negatives for on rare book auctions Reef Point disposition and RP grateful to salvage attempt by RP on no obligations for Reef Point visit by invitation for late June 1950 now part of her inner consciousness regrets remembrance of Feb. 22 for ‘memories in safe keeping' BF attempted Feb. 21 message on date both remember BF will never forget BF's cold preventing them talking on MB tried telephoning, but BF had cold moonlight and Oakdom scholarship healing necessary end of Reef Point twenty years of affection and memories enfold when MB and BF in Santa Barbara return to DO smoothed by JT review of Landscape Architecture article? draft sent for approval to JT sent article to RH application for New York landscape architect license and Riggs National Bank unsure whether Mrs. RWB is same as Rouault's letter to M. Dayot and Santa Barbara friends of, deaths of Santa Barbara visit by BF's instructions for BF's love to follow scheduling. See also Farrand, Beatrix, scheduling 1937, BF checking on 1937, BF late Oct. visit at DO with 1937, late spring DO visit with 1937, postponing winter trip to DO and 1937, telegram on date expecting BF at DO 1937, telegram to BF on her arrival time 1938, BF on difficulties of trying to meet face to face with 1938, telegram regretting BF too tired for quick DO trip 1939, late June visit of BF to DO and 1941, BF visit to Casa Dorinda 1942, DO Park Committee and 1942, June and July 1942 1942, late June visit at DO with RH 1942, May at DO with BF and 1942, no trip East planned in next month or two by 1942, RH delivery of historic tablet dummy in DC to 1943, BF on Santa Barbara visit by 1944, May at DO with BF and 1951, North Vista base for clay modelling and 1954, Jan. 1954 Astoria visit to gate construction site 1954, Oct. or Nov. 1954 to discuss Arbor Terrace paving and balustrades 1957, Myers on Fall dates for book conservation 1957, Myers on May date for book conservation 1957, Myers on Oct. date for book conservation Sept. 1942 greetings to DO gardeners sorting family memorabilia, staff making excuses to avoid suggestions of, in letter to BF BF leaving for Reef Point and telegraphed announcement of Sweeney avoiding speaking with, after postwar European trip by on Sweeney's continuing work at DO after transition on Sweeney's garden presentations, as reported to BF by on Sweeney's tasks in New York telegram greetings to Maxtrix telegram on timetable for responding to BF letter travel by to France and Italy postwar European trip sailing to France due to Schellings' illnesses typhus inoculation for, reaction over World War II and defense classes and air raid examination for defense work and precautions by energy of Sweeney's vision of war effort in Santa Barbara by Bliss, Mildred and Robert (Milrob). See also 28th Street house, Blisses'; Casa Dorinda Bar Harbor fire news cabled to BF aging and missing visiting with BF on her medicos telling her to slow down and BF reminder of Arboretum memberships BF seeking news of BF thanks for photograph of BF's thoughts of retirement and budget for DO Park and bulbs for 1944 invoice Bryce may be bypassing BF's Agent account for daffodils ordered for DO and DO growing daffodils for hyacinths for forcing for JT approval of California trip in summer 1946 by departure date for SBBG Director's House and Christmas greeting to communications gaps of dinner invitation to discussing DO Garden Center with legal advisers of DO conveyed to Harvard by Downey gratitude for Christmas present from Dvornik gratitude for Byzantine Symposia Dvornik in London and, schedule preventing visit with Dvornik missing DO and Europe and Middle East trip in fall 1947 providing inspiration and happiness for return from, concerns for gifts by of $250 to MxF's memorial at Reef Point Gardens of DO to Harvard, Lowell's discussions on to Dvornik for Christmas of lamps to St. John the Baptist Russian Church to Michigan Telephone Exchange operators of Pavillon Colombe pictures to BF of The Index of Design to RP greenhouses and Hale memorial flowers and invitation to 1952 Symposium at DO for Landscape Architecture article on DO? approval by Harvard and? draft sent for approval to loyalty and generosity of (as employers) MxF invitation to San Marino, Calif. by negatives of DO photographs and Readers Card for Reef Point Gardens of Reef Point visit by agenda for benefit to MB of BF agrees to MB's agenda for BF concerns regarding BF on what to be expected during BF's thanks for as delight for MB food choices for good to hear Sweeney say MB was pleased with July dates for June dates for MB's telegram more or less gibberish on must postpone patience with old lady needed for probable telegraphic misprint about? pullman full, must postpone RB's unexpected duties and reset for July 19 Sweeney's book lists and RH condolences to, on death of RB's brother Ross asking for suggestions for finding salaried position to continue his research Ross on imperial couple and Mother of God on Byzantine ring and seem over-tired, BF seeking news of vacation in Calif., Mrs. Warren's operation and wedding anniversary 50th, Ross on privilege of celebrating BF thoughts with them on BF tribute to greetings regarding party for (April 23rd) during winter of 1942-43 BF to order plants for Bryce growing plants at DO for decision yet on where will reside for? JT approval of growing plants for JT to look at houses for Bliss, Robert. See also Bliss, Mildred; Bliss, Mildred and Robert authorizing cutting of various tablets by birthday greetings to brief October stop at DO by brother's death, RH condolences on on Bryce taking over after Gray's death car crash and condolences on at Casa Dorinda, relaxation for on Committee for Dumbarton Oaks Park dedication of Schelling's bust at Carnegie Hall and DO chronology and on DO Park used as "Kew Garden", BF on acreage and topography for as DORL Executive Committee member energy of to France and Italy Friends of Huntington Library and gift to SBBG by on historic tablet illness of annual cold in the ‘repair shop,' BF sympathy on back trouble BF concerns for MB's anxiety over BF on distress about Farrands' visit and heavy cold threat averted by improvement of JT concern for more medical examinations for as perfect patient phlebitis resident amoeba similarities to MxF's illness steady improvement in traveling and on light in tree to illuminate Museum court MxF's gratitude for condolences on his brother's death from New England travel plans of MB and Phillips on retirement of photographs for DO staff of BF prods for BF suggests Reef Point visit and return to DO smoothed by JT storm water sewer line "D" through DO Park and surgery for recovery from sliding hernia successful upcoming, BF's heart with Sweeney as substitute secretary for thanks for various good deeds by travel arrangements for BF by to DO to DO and home Valley Club, Montecito, membership for Farrands and visa inquiry for colleague's daughter in England in Washington for State Dept. work Bloch, Camille (Paris bookseller used by BF) Bloch, Maurice Blomfield, Reginald Theodore, Sir The formal garden in England (with Thomas) in DO Garden Library in DO Rare Book Room 1941 Feb. 1949 list June 1949 list marked XX (good) in Sweeney's office Blondel, Jacques-François De la distribution des maisons de plaisance, et de la decoration des edifices en general. Par Jacques-François Blondel. Ouvrage enrichi de cent soixante planches en taille-douce, gravées par l'auteur … in DO Garden Library in DO Rare Book Room 1941 Feb. 1949 list June 1949 list marked XXX (excellent) in Mrs. Clark's custody Blossfeldt, Karl Urformen der Kunst. Photographische Pflanzenbilder in DO Garden Library in DO Rare Book Room 1941 Feb. 1949 list June 1949 list in Sweeney's office Blount, Henry Fitch as former owner of DO? on historic tablet Blount, Walter, Mrs. blueprints for Arbor Terrace for Ellipse for loggia for Swimming Pool area west wall for terrace C retaining wall for terrace D retaining wall for terrace E arbor retaining wall bluestone. See also flagging and flag stones for North Vista end of, RH outline of estimates for work on Steinbraker's estimate for path north of Museum of Blum (Julius), Inc. (bronze supplier) Blunt, Wilfrid The Art of Botanical Illustration BF recommends DO buy received at DO received by MxF Memorial Library sent to DO from Reef Point Willgoose knows MB wants Flower Books and their Illustrators, An Exhibition Arranged for the National Book League received by MxF Memorial Library Board of Commissioners, Huron-Clinton Metropolitan Authority The Fourth Biennial Report of the Board of Commissioners as of December 31, 1949 received by MxF Memorial Library Bobbink & Atkins account to Harvard of payment to invoice roses from availability/prices of for early March delivery for hybrid teas available as major cost in 1944 orders for prices needed for that Conard-Pyle can't supply Bobbink, Lambertus single rose seedlings for Reef Point Gardens from Böckler, Georg Andreas Architectura curiosa nova… marked X (fair) Myers's estimate for restoration of notes on Myers's repairs for received at DO recommended by Mass. Hort. librarian sending to DO Bocklern. See Böckler, Georg Andreas Boconnia japonica to be sown summer of 1922 Bodley Bookshop check sent to pay MB account Body, William pamphlet on continuing needs for SBBG and took no compensation for preparing SBBG financial reports Boehemeria cylindrica P. H. No. 49 in whirligig display at Catalogue House Oct. 4, 1941 Bogue, James W. Monumental Sculpture marked X (fair) Bohenia at Casa Dorinda Boidart, Pierre Traité de la composition et de l'ornement des jardins: avec cent soixante-huit planches, représentant, en plus de six cents figures, des plans de jardins, des fabriques propres à leur décoration, et des machines pour élever les eaux of less importance but worthwhile marked X (fair) received at DO Shillaber to collate Boigelin, Count de, from Paris marriage belt of Boit, Louise Boles, Charlotte B. Bolgiano, C. Alfred, Mr. and Mrs. Bollingen Foundation grant for Ross's Byzantine enamel book by proposal on Ross catalogue of DO museum objects to Bolton, Arthur T. The gardens of Italy, with historical and descriptive notes (Phillips) edited by Feb. 1949 list Sweeney's 1948 research on Boltonia adterioides as perennial seeds for MB Boltonia latisquama to be sown summer of 1922 P. H. No. 50 Bolus, Harriet Margaret Louisa A book of South African flowers (with Barclay and Steer) marked XX (good) Bond, W. H. on landscape architecture bibliographies Bonnier, Gaston Name this flower: a simple way of finding out the names of common plants without previous knowledge of botany… in DO Garden Library Feb. 1949 list in Garden Guide office June 1949 list in Sweeney's office book, on DO gardens. See booklet, descriptive, of DO; planting record book A Book About Roses (Hole) BF on usefulness for Sweeney of BF recommends DO buy bought for DO by BF in DO Garden Library Feb. 1949 list June 1949 list ordered by BF from Mass. Hort. Library Sweeney to check DO holdings for book box or lead book shelf. See lead bookcase The book of annuals (Hottes) BF recommends DO buy in Sweeney's office The Book of birds (Henshaw) in DO Garden Library Feb. 1949 list June 1949 list in Sweeney's office The Book of Bulbs (Rockwell) June 1949 list marked X (fair) ordered from Fiedler The Book of Bulbs received from MacMillans Book of garden plants (Hamblin) marked XX (good) The Book of Grasses (Francis) recommended by Mass. Hort. librarian The book of perennials (Hottes) in DO Garden Library Feb. 1949 list June 1949 list in Sweeney's office The book of shrubs (Gordon) marked X (fair) The book of shrubs (Hottes) bought for DO by BF in DO Garden Library Feb. 1949 list June 1949 list ordered from Fiedler A book of South African flowers (Barclay, Bolus, and Steer) marked XX (good) A book of sundial mottoes (Hyatt) in DO Garden Library Feb. 1949 list June 1949 list The Book of sun-dials (Gatty) June 1949 list marked X (fair) marked XX (good) The book of sundials and their mottoes (Foulis) marked X (fair) A book of the country and the garden (Batson) received by MxF Memorial Library The book of the daffodil (Bourne) marked X (fair) The Book of the Peony (Harding) BF recommends DO buy bought for DO by BF in DO Garden Library Feb. 1949 list June 1949 list ordered by BF from Mass. Hort. Library with prints in color The Book of the Rose (Taylor) added to MxF Library at Reef Point The book of the scented garden (Burbidge) marked X (fair) The Book of the Tree (Mase) in DO Garden Library Feb. 1949 list in Sweeney's office The Book of the Tulip no copy worth adding to Sweeney's collection of The book of trees (Hottes) received from Fiedler recommended by Mass. Hort. librarian A book of wayside fruits and wild flowers (McKenny and Johnston) recommended by Mass. Hort. librarian The book of wild flowers for young people (Mathews) bought for DO by BF in DO Garden Library Feb. 1949 list June 1949 list ordered ordered from Argosy with prints in color received from Argosy book restoration. See Myers, Fleda S. bookbinders Filliatre seeking work at DO as name of MB's, sent to A. A. Friend Ruzicka, Joseph "Craftstyle", invoice from booklet, descriptive, of DO. See also leaflets, educational for garden visitors to be made ready for Spring opening BF agrees but who is to do it? BF inquiry on progress with BF on space allotments for JT asking BF to write and develop JT has no news of JT of goal for MB approves dummy for MB had no time to consider Reef Point Gardens' booklet as model for RP and Sweeney to start on RP on responsibilities for sent to BF in Calif. separate from booklet on DO House Sweeney on need for Sweeney on talk of unlikely to be ready in near future Landscape Architecture article reprint as to be sold at DO BF thanks for copies of scholarly, JT asking BF to write and develop books, rare. See also Founder's Room; Garden Library already owned by DO, BF needs list of request for resulting list to be moved from Clark's office to Underworld BF's list of, sent to Sweeney for MB's consideration returning to Stover from Bliss collection added to Sweeney's reference books booksellers playing Mrs. Roy Hunt off MB for at DO, MB questions for JT on DO Garden Library room for restoration of. See also Myers, Fleda S. insurance coverage during Sweeney lists of Sweeney no longer working with Sweeney's list checked by Mrs. Clark books, reference. See also Catalogue House, Library; Garden Library additions to any more Sweeney would like to have? from England how to make them available Sweeney wanting to discuss with BF titles of Agent account for purchase of deposit of $50 to MB adding $50 to to be purchased by BF for Sweeney BF cuts all ties with purchases of BF discretion on titles for budget 1944-45 for $75/$25 explanation for balance in Beatrix Farrand, Agent account and MB needing clarification on orders to go out for separate accounting for sources for $125 for for Catalogue House displays foreign, sources for funding for acquisition of balance remaining BF Agent account in MB's name for by MB by MB, $50 added to B.F. Agent account for need for? what is balance left for? for garden visitors inexpensive, Harvard to buy lists marked by BF as fair, good, or valuable lists typed and sent to BF by order petty cash for Sweeney purchase of to be added to on plants and their origins? recommended by N.Y. Botanical Garden librarian for Santa Barbara Botanic Garden Stover on finding and ordering of suggestions for to support Sweeney-guided garden tours installed on shelves in Sweeney's office what titles does Sweeney need? titles sent to Sweeney from BF for Underworld office for card index of Garden books moved into file drawer measurements for mould covering in renovations to unnecessary Sweeney return to Washington to make lists of BF and IMS feeling guilty on Sweeney return to Washington for booksellers. See also Quaritch (Bernard) Ltd.; Staack, F. & George; Traylen, Charles W. Argosy Book Shop book order sent to Studies in Gardening (Clutton-Brock) ordered from Sweeney on receipt of copy of order sent to Sweeney on titles received from L'Art Ancien S.A. Zurich Bain (James) Limited order for titles received at DO from titles received at Reef Point and sent to DO Batsford (B. T.) Ltd. Berés, Pierre Blackwell (B. H.) Ltd. Jekyll books not received from offering Gardens of China Blackwell (B. H.) Ltd., Dulau's Dept. of book order sent to books ordered but not received from nothing of note in Sweeney on receipt of shipment from Bodley Bookshop Chronica Botanica Co. books ordered from wooden box from, hard to open Dawson's Book Shop Dunthorne, Gordon Eberlein, Harold Donaldson Edwards, H. W. Fiedler, Henry George Fletcher, Ifan Kyrle Frauendorfer, Alfred Goldschmidt, Lucien Goldschmidt, Mr. Goodspeeds Book Shop, Inc. Graves, Arthur Gregory, K. horticulture and design books offered by titles ordered from titles received at DO from Vanvitelli's Dichiarazione bought from The wild garden (Robinson) not received from Helburn, William King, Rafael Kramer, Miss Lundberg, Eric Lundberg, Ernest Lundgren, Eric Martinus Nijhoff Nijhoff, Wouter Picard, A. & J. Rainbird (George) Ltd Rauch, Nicolas catalogue annotated and returned to MB catalogue of, received at DO catalogue of, sent to BF catalogue returned to Willgoose Erlustierende Augenweide (Diesel) already sold by MB grateful to Goff for sending page from catalogue of Rodale Books Incorporated Rosenthal (Bernard M.), Inc. MB avoids the Steerbeck, but asks about the Gerard Herbal MB inspects and buys two books from MB refuses offer of Byzantine early and first editions from sending Parke-Bernet Galleries auction catalog to MB Vanvitelli's Dichiarazione asked for Vanvitelli's Dichiarazione bought from Vanvitelli's Dichiarazione offered by Rosenthal (Ludwig) Antiquariaat Shapiro, S. R. Swiss, types of books MB should inquire about availability from The Rosenbach Company Thorp, Thomas Tiranti, John used by BF, with addresses Whyte Woodburn, Elizabeth Zeitlin & Ver Brugge Booksellers Boötes chair aluminum inserts for clarifying changes for design prudence of wood panels in borogroves BF notes on no suggestions for placement of Bosquet fountain, photograph of, for postcard pool in, RH adaptation to Rose Garden of seat under construction Lank promised for Aug. 31 RH asking Lank to put aside work on Boston Flower Show acacias acquired at Boston Museum of Fine Arts evaluation of DO gold medallion by Boston Safe Deposit and Trust as potential trustee for Reef Point endowment The Botanic Garden (Maund) marked XX (good) The botanical magazine, or, Flower-garden displayed (Curtis) in DO Garden Library in DO Rare Book Room 1941 Feb. 1949 list June 1949 list in Mrs. Clark's custody offered by Quaritch in London with prints in color Vols. 1 to 18, received by MxF Memorial Library Botanicum Historicum (Jaquin) botanists, BF on disinterest in cultivated plants by The botanist's repository: for new and rare plants (Andrews) analysis of plates missing from LC copy of MB seeking replacement copy for Library of Congress botany BF suggests Sweeney study Botany and Gardening (book) catalogue sent to MB by Greely Botany for gardeners (Faulkner) received by MxF Memorial Library Botany for young people and common schools: how plants grow (Gray) received by MxF Memorial Library botany teachers BF inquiry on role at DO gardens for BF open to meeting with, if useful Boteler, Basil D., Mrs. Botinelli, Steve (stonecutter) bottlebrush buckeye at Dumbarton Oaks east along walk between R St. wall and 31st St. entrance, p.19 East Lawn East Lawn, Lovers' Lane to Wilderness Lovers' Lane to Wilderness Bottomley, Myrl Elijah The design of small properties; a book for the home-owner in city and country Sweeney's 1948 research on Bouchard-Huzard, Louis Traité des constructions rurales et de leur disposition, ou des maisons d'habitation à l'usage des cultivateurs: des logements pour les animaux domestiques, écuries, étables, bergeries, porcheries, chenils, poulaillers, etc. BF recommends DO buy boudoir cabinet, BF notes on no suggestions for base of Boulanger, Nadia concert at DO with Markevitch to miss concert planned featuring leaving on night train visiting Hope Ranch near Santa Barbara Bourgogne, France Focillon father and son exhibition of Nov. 1955 in Bourne, Eugene The book of the daffodil marked X (fair) Bower, Frederick O. A Century of Botany: 1855-1935 Bowers, Clement Gray Rhododendrons and azaleas; their origins, cultivation and development to compare with Harvard Landscape Library marked XXX and owned by Arnold Arboretum recommended by Mass. Hort. librarian suggested for DO Bowles, Edward Augustus A handbook of Crocus and Colchicum for gardeners June 1949 list marked XX (good) received from Gregory A handbook of Narcissus marked XX (good) Bowles, Eva H. (Mrs. Oliver) DO visit by Women's Auxiliary of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, refused Bowling Green or Bowling Alley chains between piers of fountain, terra cotta vases could be placed at gravel, to be discussed at DO visit with MB Lank to submit estimate for lattice at lattice fence around, long-term garden policy on photos of, loaned to RH box bushes or boxwood. See also under Buxus on Beech Terrace, overgrown Bryce has buyer for sale has gone through for should be changed in spring 1946 should be moved and replanted where should it go and how replaced? for Byzantine Garden on cedar terrace, to be used elsewhere declining on North Vista, wall to replace Ellipse long-term care plan for not to be replaced until after Bryce's vacation at front door are dying urns by, submerged in background of haystack, ailing, suggest removal and replant with roses on the Knoll, MB approves BF's proposed scheme for nursery for starting replacements for at Orangery south side, has been changed oversize, BF on selling of in Quarters nursery, Bryce on quantity of in rose garden, should be moved will be expensive on Rose Terrace, to be replaced small, in nursery, p.25 small, near wall of upper vegetable garden tall American, removed from North Vista Box Ellipse. See also Ellipse Berrall survey, 1924 of hedge line for BF first report to Harvard on DO grounds policy and cement and gravel for paths to central pool before Provencal fountain cost of planting at seat east of plan of Box Garden plantings, p.40 Box Terrace. See also Terrace B; Urn Terrace BF on no drawings for top rail of bench for Coles has drawings for center circle creepers overgrown and encumber view from finials for mock-up gravel changed to darker color in progress location of finial on pier paving to be completed before Symposium brick walk drawings completed for Mexican beach pebbles for center of no time for as yet plans being sent plans of RH advising MB to accept Hughes estimate for underway piers for plans of brick paving at tablet laurel garland design in Mexican beach pebbles limestone paving at center seat at south end of dimensions for little stones spread under shrub boxes, Lank's construction of steps from Rose Garden to and to Beech Terrace from McLeod & Romborg Stone Co. proposal for tablet Coles having trouble locating limestone for drawings of sketches for moulded edge for MB's review urn in, photograph of for Landscape Architecture article for postcard walls for Box Walk closing tennis court entrance to Bryce and Bryce perhaps underestimating work for MB on as work in progress near destruction of, fortunate accident and path between herbaceous border and photograph of, for postcard plantings along, p.42 plantings on Goat Walk from Wisteria Arbor to, p.45 plantings on walk between cutting garden and, p.40 plantings to be simplified during World War II in topographical maps for willow replacement on northwest side of boxelder (or Acer) between greenhouse side door and road, p.38 boxwood. See box bushes or boxwood; under Buxus Boxwood gardens, old and new (Lewis) Feb. 1949 list June 1949 list ordered from Gregory received at DO Boy Scouts American Merchant Marine Library Association and ask Sweeney to contact? contact with, JT progress on long-term plan for use of DO grounds by Boyce Thompson Institute, Yonkers, New York Boyceau. See La Barauderie, Jacques Boyceau de Boyceaux, Jacques. See La Barauderie, Jacques Boyceau de Boyd, Annaria papers for book restorations available from Boyd, Lizzie Edmunds England, her people and her gardens received by MxF Memorial Library Boyhan (no first name), to paint coats of arms Boyle, Eleanor Vere Days and hours in a garden bought for DO by BF in DO Garden Library Feb. 1949 list June 1949 list ordered from Dulau Garden Colour: Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter (with Earle, Gibbs, Kingsley, and Waterfield) bought for DO by BF in DO Garden Library Feb. 1949 list June 1949 list ordered from Fiedler with prints in color received from Fiedler A Garden of Pleasure ordered from Dulau Rosa rosarum ex horto poetarum marked XX (good) Seven Gardens and a Palace bought for DO by BF in DO Garden Library Feb. 1949 list June 1949 list ordered from Dulau Sept. 1948 Boyle, Irene E. Lindsay's death and Elizabeth Lindsay's surgery and on Mrs. Cameron's death Boy's Love for British scented garden for the blind Brabantia illustrate sive castella & praetoria nobilium Brabantiae (Le Roy) marked XXX (excellent) Bradley, H.L., print of rocaille motif Braille for British scented gardens for the blind Brainerd, Ezra Violets of North America BF ordering of ordered from Lundberg Sweeney wants BF opinion on Branson Cutting Lecture Brasher bird collection, MB on qualities of brass for North Vista toprail, some difficulty in getting Brassica alba Ann. No. 10 Brassica napus Ann. No. 11 Brassica rapa Bi. No. 3-3A (Common turnip) two prints Brassica sinapistrum Ann. No. 12 Breck (Joseph) & Sons account to Harvard of payment to rose order for early March delivery roses available from seeds invoice 1943, Cynglossum amabile Fairy Blue 1943, unnamed flowers 1944, unnamed flowers seeds order 1942 1943 1944 Breck (matter) to BF for your information BF to go into and over Brehme, Hugo Picturesque Mexico marked X (fair) Breitschneider, Emil History of European Botanical discoveries in China Brendel, Frederick Historical sketch of the science of Botany in North America from 1635-1840-1848 Bretagne Augustin, F. Pierre Rejouissances et fétes magnifiques qui se sont faites en Baviere l'an 1722… collated at Harvard June 1949 list Shillaber collation not yet received at DO Shillaber collation received at DO Shillaber to collate Brewer-Watson Flora of California, at Gray Herbarium, Harvard brick, old and mossy, recipe for making brick walk for Box Terrace daffodil order for near brick walls at northwest corner of house, plantings on pattern choices for MB brickwork in Swimming Pool and Loggia The Bride (magnolia) Bryce must prune severely Bryce on pruning of MB on pruning of opening east gate to public and JT and Bryce discussing present position of, as perfectly chosen scillas blooming under small, to replace East Lawn cedar of Lebanon? MB on idea of potential for Sweeney on springing to life of bridge in DO Park, stone seat looking north for photograph of, for postcard Bridgwater, Derek A History of Cast Iron in Architecture (with Gloag) added to MxF Library at Reef Point Bright, Henry Arthur A Year in a Lancashire garden in DO Garden Library Feb. 1949 list June 1949 list Sept. 1948 Brioschi, Othmar Villa d'Este in Tivioli marked X (fair) Brissac. See Cossé Brissac, Philippe de Britannia Illustrata (Kip, 1709-16) in DO Garden Library British Colour Council Horticultural colour chart checking if Sweeney already has copy of DO does not have in DO Garden Library Feb. 1949 list June 1949 list British embassy, Sipporell photographs of The British Flora (Thornton) BF approves and is sending to DO BF wants to see before placing order for in DO Garden Library Feb. 1949 list June 1949 list MB got for reasonable price MB grateful for trouble BF is taking in sending MB on acquisition of received at DO The British flower garden (Sweet) recommended by Mass. Hort. librarian British Grasses and Sedges (Pratt) in DO Garden Library Feb. 1949 list in Garden Guide office June 1949 list in Sweeney's office The British Heritage (Pennington, et al.) added to MxF Library at Reef Point British Institute of Landscape Architects British Museum bronze lamp in DO collection similar to same in miniature of St. Luke reading by glass lamp in Britton, John No. 665 in Staack catalogue BF recommends DO buy sent to DO from Staack The history and description, with graphic illustrations, of Cassiobury Park, Hertfordshire: the seat of the Earl of Essex in DO Garden Library Feb. 1949 list June 1949 list MB selection of received from Staack Britton, Nathaniel Lord The Cactaceae; descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family (with Rose) recommended by Mass. Hort. librarian An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian (with Brown) to compare with Harvard Landscape Library in DO Garden Library Feb. 1949 list in Garden Guide office June 1949 list marked XXX, owned by DO and Arnold Arboretum suggested for DO in Sweeney's office North American trees… received by MxF Memorial Library Britton, W. E. Plant pests in Connecticut marked X (fair) brochures. See booklet, descriptive, of DO Brodeur. See Vallet, Pierre Brodiaea at SBBG, estimates for planting Brodie, Mr., MB on willingness to work for SBBG of Bronson, Wilfred S. The Grasshopper Book in DO Garden Library Feb. 1949 list June 1949 list in Sweeney's office bronze for arbor, estimates in preparation for lamp in DO collection, only similar is in British Museum for North Vista toprail, some difficulty in getting objects in DO museum of bronze boxes in the safe at DO, MB questions for JT on brook and dell, photograph of, for postcard and falls, photograph of, for postcard plan to mark trees for thinning alongside widening and damming of Brooke, F. H., Mrs. Brooke, Frederick BF on discussing plans before asking for drawings by Landscape Architecture article on DO and Loggia design MB asks for grading plans from MB dissatisfied with iron railing plans by Brooklyn, New York, garden for the blind opened in Brooklyn Botanical Garden BF arranging Van Rensselaer visit to Blisses invited to book list of daffodils for National Gallery may be donated to Brookside's symposium just ended, stimulating arrangements proposed for next year Brotherton, Robert P. Old-time gardening: plants introduced in 17th century in alphabetical order marked XX (good) Brouerius van Nidek, Matthaeus Het zegenpralent Kennemerlant, vertoont in veele heerelyke gezichten to compare with Harvard Landscape Library marked XXX (excellent) suggested for DO Broun, Maurice Index to North American ferns: constituting a catalogue of the ferns and fern allies of North America north of Mexico, including all known forms, varieties, and hybrids in DO Garden Library June 1949 list not received by Sweeney order for Sweeney on acquiring Sweeney on receiving in Sweeney's office Broussard, J. Construction & decoration peur jardins marked X (fair) Browallia deniosa plants wanted from Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh Browallia speciosa major seeds order for greenhouse Brower, A. E. as advisor to Reef Point Gardens Alpine and Arctic plants given to Reef Point by Brown, Addison An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian (with Britton) to compare with Harvard Landscape Library in DO Garden Library Feb. 1949 list in Garden Guide office June 1949 list marked XXX, owned by DO and Arnold Arboretum suggested for DO in Sweeney's office Brown, Glenn (ed.) European and Japanese Gardens marked X (fair) Brown, Harry Philip Trees of northeastern United States: native and naturalized Sweeney wants BF opinion on Sweeney's 1948 research on Brown, John Mason, Mr. and Mrs. Brown, Olga (Mrs. Ernest Willis) Brown, Stewardson Alpine Flora of the Canadian Rocky Mountains marked XX (good) Brown, T. Janney, Mrs. Brown, William Adams, Mrs. Browne, Thomas, Sir Hydriotaphia and The garden of Cyrus marked X (fair) Browning, Edward, Jr., Mrs. Reef Point disposition and Brunelli, Bruno Ville del Brenta e degli Euganei, marked XXX (excellent) Brush garden, Williamsburg, Va., plant list Bryan, Hamilton V. DO visit by Italian aviators and, refused Bryan, John S. and Mary opening of DO research library and museum and Bryan garden, Williamsburg, Va., plant list Bryant, Mrs. BF on new arrangement for Santa Ana Botanic Garden and Bryce, James as arborist azalea moving and could dig up in preparation for difficulty of wrongly placing with incorrect botanical names for JT asks BF's approval of JT will hold off until BF arrives regrouping and azalea-growing by on bedding plants heliotrope lemon verbena BF and RH suggesting regrading portion of North Vista to BF in Boston and grateful for visit by JT unable to release for meeting with suggestion to JT on meeting with wanting to meet with wiser for him not to travel to BF not coming to DO and to be told by JT and BF of fall 1944, MB to relay to spring 1946, who to tell? BF on enthusiasm but limitations of BF visits to DO and agenda for June meetings and April 1941 Aug. 1943 BF asks him to buy train ticket for her BF lodging with in Sept. 1943 June 1941 Nov. 1945 Oct. 1938 BF's planting record book and review of face copies by BF's thank-you's to DO maids, hand-delivery by on Blisses in Scotland blooming schedule notes for Sweeney by budget for for 1942-43, proposed, and for 1943-44, repair and replacement in? for 1944-45, elements in assured of position at DO for BF on needs for BF on status of and plans for can Sweeney's salary for Nov. be paid from? on garden staff raises landscape bills to be sent through BF, Agent by losing men to defense work and shifting his to support Sweeney at DO World War II restrictions and bulb orders and BF asking 1947 review by BF wants review and approval of before placing on delay in receiving Lawler order for DO and National Gallery JT to discuss with no details sent to BF on bulb orders for Blisses on BF consulting MB on winter supply BF on extras ordered for? daffodils for DO and wait until fall on California vacation for BF gift and JT on possibility of MB and BF funding for wanting to wait until after war ends Catalogue House map photograph and chrysanthemum-blooming abilities of Clifton hillside path and MB on widening and construction of to stake out tentative line for communications with BF concern on no word from BF needs MB's help with responding by emotional over phone conversation with Blisses plan for shrub border order and through RP, JT on through RP? concrete center of the walk by on copper beech demise difficulties keeping garden staff of difficulties with moodiness of BF and JT to discuss BF letter on planning for the future and BF sending long letter to BF's and RP's guidance of JT discussion with JT forwarded BF's letter to resentful of reduced duties of response to BF's letter by RP as supervisor of short-term vs. long-term requests and Superintendent's role and Sweeney on his thoughts for his future tentative letter for JT's consideration on tentative letter with JT's revisions on transmittal to JT of letter on diseased Green Garden vinca to be replaced with ivy by DO Park and gate key being made for maintenance estimates for and Nov. meeting on construction at plantings for and storm water sewer line "D" through DO transfer to Harvard and to be kept on after and continued work by on future of DO and perceived role at DO by DO visitors and Chevy Chase Garden Club Cook, Jane James Cornell agriculture students on first open day Griggs, Laura T. Japanese gardeners by N.A.G. branches Self-Help Exchange benefit tour and Sweeney's guided tours and support by dogs sent to Blisses by on Easter lilies for MB and DO English Gardener's Chronicle for as Fire Warden after Pearl Harbor bombing Goat Trail replacement steps and Gray's Memorial and Gray's role assumed by on great white oak, stubbing of on Green Garden's great white oak greenhouses and on growing plants for Blisses by heating questionnaire on specific buildings for heavy workload and work ethic of and BF concern for health of easing, brainstorming on reducing and saving health of easing, JT seeking BF advice on garden staff and hemlock transplanting by herbaceous border and wall composition during the war on JT aid in Kearney's discharge from military (A.) Kennedy's relationship with and Easter lilies Landscape Architecture article on DO and landscape plans in office of, JT on cataloguing of on lily varieties at DO MB on BF's knowledge of people's congregating habits versus knowledge of on moving trees and shrubs for new sculpture gallery MxF's resignation from Huntington Library, news of told to MxF's surgery, may be told of National Gallery bulb orders and approximate order thoughts of daffodils for on likelihood of on no word regarding relief on cancellation of suggest abandoning new path to Orangery from South Drive and North Vista plant procurement by on orange trees in Orangery on orchid ‘situation' on path from front door to Orangery as planter and grower planting pocket at NE corner of music room and on plants to give away Post War Security Conference at DO and clean-up after postcards for DO and. See postcards, picture post-retirement Washington visit by Reef Point visit by excellence of JT approves if not part of DO budget planning for on plea of record book repeat in 1944? retirement of BF asks to give good wishes regarding BF on JT on new occupants for house of planning a move to Florida after as upturn for MB RH visits to DO, lodging with in Sept. 1942 Root to collaborate with Royal Horticultural Society dues for satisfaction and gratitude for raise in pay from Blisses of seeds orders for hard-to-obtain seeds and sprained ankle of on Stewart's prints of DO stream cleaning in DO Park and as Superintendent of Buildings, proposed Sweeney as potential extra hand for Sweeney receives copy of BF letter to Sweeney to ask about stock plant differences of swimming pool usage signs and tennis court entrance to Box Walk closing and on The Bride pruning of pruning results and tulip choices by tulip terrace changed to annuals by U.S. State Dept. conferences at DO and vacation for Beatrix Farrand, Agent account and in Florida in Feb. with his wife instructions on the way out of town by less apprehensive before postcard order in absence of? return from Florida after taken without writing to BF about vegetable garden at DO for personal use of concern on overwork due to pleasure and relaxation from on vegetable gardens at DO, work required for Victory Garden demonstrations and whirligig moving opposed by and wife on willow replacement on northwest side of box walk on World War II precautions at DO Bryn Mawr Club of Washington Buchanan, E. H. See Handasyde Buchnera viscosa P. H. No. 51 Buc'hoz, Pierre-Joseph Collection coloriée des plus belles variétés de tulipes: qu'on cultive dans les jardins des fleuristes ou etrennes de flore aux amateurs BF advises against purchasing Buddleia at Casa Dorinda to be removed may be removed on panels below center map on slope between Superintendent's Cottage and Fellow's Quarters, p.27 in upper kitchen garden (former cutting garden) varied, S. D. No. 16 Buddleia asiatica S. D. No. 14 Buddleia davidii S. D. No. 15 Buddleia davidii magnifica budget for landscape work at DO Harvard transition and any news of arrangements for Sweeney? BF's terms letter needed for breakdown of more detail for Bryce shifting his to support Sweeney general question on heating, repair, and incidentals in? sent to BF Sweeney salary from Blisses, BF, and DO what is allocated? post-World War II Agent account for replenishment plants and detail for actual expenses on elimination of one position in extra fund for buildings maintenance and funds insufficient for all of planned North Vista work in RP to draw up separating buildings maintenance budget from unused by BF to be credited to garden use? during World War II for 1942-43 to be reviewed in April with BF BF comments on BF delighted by gardeners' salaries raised proposed by JT during World War II for 1943-44 BF on status of and plans for discussions on, with BF, PJS, and Sweeney's reports important for during World War II for 1944-45 BF appreciative of JT's patience with BF gift to JT needing economies in JT needing July 1-Dec. 31 numbers from BF JT provided whole budget for BF to read JT touched by BF gift to JT unable to let his heart be guide for overdrawn for seeds and bulbs each year overrun in last years, need breakdown of what included planning as portion of whole budget? reference books for Garden Guide and repair and replacement in? students at DO increased and The bulb book (Weathers) marked X (fair) bulbs. See also specific species of and vendors for BF account of payment for for Blisses' 28th Street house Bryce wanting BF to consult MB on extras to be ordered for? JT approval of wait until fall to consult with for Catalogue House controlling orders for Agent account balance for? BF and RP will have order ready in June BF on her discounts vs. Bryce's purchase of BF understanding of BF wanting to discuss Bryce bypassing BF's Agent account for Bryce on need for ordering cost savings over year before funds for, review of inquiry to Oregon Bulb Farms on orders for JT on cost savings for JT on RP's office and JT to discuss with Bryce JT wanting to discuss no details sent to BF on Bryce order for overrun budget each year for for spring blooming Stover untangling DO orders for for Crabapple Hill/Knoll to be discussed for DO greenhouse and garden bills for bought in second half of 1944 for DO Park, planting in drifts of for forcing BF further describing bills for BF review for Bryce of order for on grape arbor path from Iris Hill to bird walk and steps to cherry hill, p.31 JT covering cost for fall 1941 order for Mélisande's Allée at northwest corner of house spring in Beech Terrace, p.44 in Beech Terrace, p.46 in the Copse, p.37 on Crabapple Hill, p.42 at Director's house and terrace, p.34 from entrance gate to Terrior Column, right side, p.52 on Goat Walk from Wisteria Arbor to Box Walk, p.45 in herbaceous border, p.40 Hopkins's plan for Ellipse and on service road to rock wall near Hazel Walk, p.35 on terrace between bird walk and kitchen garden on terrace between Box Walk and cutting garden on terrace D, p.49 on terrace E, p.49 in terrace overhanging kitchen garden in terrace overhanging kitchen garden, p.20 Sweeney's garden talk notes about between Terrace D and reflecting pool, p.29 Williamsburg Garden and Flower Symposium list of Bulbs for American Gardens (Wister) marked X (fair) ordered from Argosy ordered from Mass. Hort. Library Bullard, Sellar BF urging MB to write to MB on looking forward to meeting on "misery in" MB's "eyes" note to BF on visit with Blisses Santa Barbara Botanic Garden and antagonism between Van Rensselaer and BF relay of MB hope to meet BF resignation from Board and BF respect for tact and competence of on BF's usefulness to on closing of SBBG in 1950 concerns regarding elected president of the Board garden planning and house plans for Director and invitation to BF as Consultant by keen interest as new trustee as manna sent from on high MB on Van Rensselaer's resignation and MB on willingness to work of on parking lot construction on purchasing adjacent property for reordering priorities for survey of on Van Rensselaer's improved health Bullard, Sellar, Mrs. gift to SBBG for steps from highroad to boulder by Bulletin of popular information, Morton Arboretum binders for early numbers of, sought for Garden Library as gift to DO held by Reef Point Garden library Sweeney on need for Vol. 18 Vols. 1-17 to compare with Harvard Landscape Library marked XXX (excellent) Bullitt, Wm. C. Blisses' letter of introduction for Sessions to Bundled for Britain Bundy, McGeorge Bunyard, Edward A. Old Garden Roses in DO Garden Library Feb. 1949 list in Garden Guide office June 1949 list Sweeney on need for in Sweeney's office Burbidge, Frederick William The book of the scented garden marked X (fair) The narcissus: its history and culture with coloured plates and descriptions of all known species and principal varieties Feb. 1949 list June 1949 list offered by Quaritch in London received from Staack sent to DO Burbing, Lillian Burden, William asks BF for help with Maine property MB congratulations on BF as landscape gardener for Burgess, Mr. (Roof Structures Inc.) Burghi, Juan Pajaros Nuestros (poems) in DO Garden Library Feb. 1949 list June 1949 list Burnham-on-Sea, England, scented garden for the blind in Burnside, H. W., Mrs. burr oak. See Quercus macrocarpa Bush-Brown, Louise Portraits of Philadelphia Gardens received by MxF Memorial Library Butcher, Deveraux Butcher, Mrs., on Mosses with a Hand Lens Butler, Emily, breakdown of Butler, Ovid, Mr. and Mrs. butler, Wharton's financial strains and Butler's Cottage, plantings around Buttercup family, Sweeney welcoming talk references to Butterflies (Macy and Shepard) in DO Garden Library Feb. 1949 list in Garden Guide office June 1949 list in Sweeney's office butterflies, need book on, Stover doesn't know which Butterflies and red flowers engraving (Merian) buttonwood Sweeney's garden talk notes about Buxus East Lawn, Lovers' Lane to Wilderness at entrance steps Buxus sempervirens at 1701 32nd St. gate, p.22 from Beech Terrace to Loggia, p.44 BF on moving for sculpture gallery construction of in Box Ellipse, p.40 on Box Ellipse walk overlooking Catalogue Knoll, p.40 Cockylocky common box Cockylocky Fountain Terrace Front Lawn Lovers' Lane Pool in the Copse, p.37 in corner between Museum south wall and entrance gate, p.17 on Crabapple Hill, p.42 on Crabapple Hill, p.43 at Director's house and terrace, p.33 from DO residence front entrance to Orangery, p.46 east along walk between R St. wall and 31st St. entrance, p.19 East Lawn from entrance steps west, p.47 as fine-leafed evergreen in garage court, p.39 from garage court to Ellipse, p.38 at greenhouse and cool house entrances, p.39 between greenhouse side door and road, p.38 from Iris Hill to bird walk and steps to cherry hill, p.31 along kitchen gate path to R St. exit, p.47 in line of possibly shifted service road and near front door, BF on removal of near Terrior Column, with Veronica rupestris moss and violets as ground cover, p.52 on North Vista, both sides of lawn, p.39 northwest of Mrs. Clark's cottage, p.26 on path to paint house from Mrs. Clark's path, p. 26 plant listings East Lawn Rose Garden R Street, front of house for Rose Terrace, BF on for Rose Terrace, p.41 S. E. No. 8 on slope between Superintendent's Cottage and Fellow's Quarters, p.27 at Superintendent's Cottage, p.29 on terrace B (Urn Terrace), p.35 from terrace D's south gate to Orangery, p.50 from terrace E to orchard steps, p.29 from Terrior Column to entrance gate, right side, p.51 along tunnel to lower road, p.39 Buxus sempervirens suffruticosa dwarf box Cockylocky Front Lawn Rose Garden East Lawn plant listings R Street Buxus suffruticosa in Beech Terrace, p.44 in Beech Terrace, p.46 from Beech Terrace to Loggia, p.44 from Box Ellipse to Box Terrace, p.40 on Box Ellipse walk overlooking Catalogue Knoll, p.40 on Box Walk, p.42 on Crabapple Hill, p.43 at Director's house and terrace, p.34 from DO residence front entrance to Orangery, p.46 east along walk between R St. wall and 31st St. entrance, p.19 from entrance gate to Terrior Column, right side, p.52 from entrance steps west, p.47 as fine-leafed evergreen on Goat Walk from Wisteria Arbor to Box Walk, p.45 along kitchen gate path to R St. exit, p.47 on Museum Cortile, edging center plot of grass, p.18 at Music Room steps, p.17 near Beech Terrace wall, south side, p.46 in Rose Garden, p.41 for south front of house on terrace B (Urn Terrace), p.35 on terrace B south of steps, p.34 between Terrace D and reflecting pool, p.29 on terrace D on both sides of south gate, p.50 from terrace D's south gate to Orangery, p.50 Byne, Mildred Stapley and Arthur Byne Spanish Gardens and Patios in DO Garden Library in DO Rare Book Room 1941 Feb. 1949 list June 1949 list marked XX (good) in Sweeney's office Byzantine apse Byzantine ceiling lamp Byzantine Conferences. See also Symposia at DO Forsyth gratitude for scheduled for April 1947 Byzantine enamel Blisses' funding of Ross trip to Russia for study of cameos of the XI-XII centuries, Ross on as great artistic achievement objects in DO museum Ross's book on alert to Blisses about Stoclet family asking about goal for outline of Ross to read first draft at DO Symposium Russian institutions sending photographs for Ross's photographs of of Saint Triphon in San Marco Byzantine Garden design with changes for DO paid RP's bill for general plan and section for sent to MB as inactive RH project paving materials options for aggregate concrete, Earley Studio choices for RH collected samples for RH wants to discuss with MB placement of wall, low, to support mosaic for Byzantine gems carved, at Walters Art Gallery in DO museum Byzantine glass cameos, Ross's photographs of cameos of the XI-XII centuries, Ross on in DO museum Byzantine glyptics Ross on Museum visitors and Ross on need for book on Ross plans for book on Vollenmeir visit to DO and talk of Byzantine ivory boxes Ross on Museum visitors and Byzantine jewelry Witting discussing Ross book on Byzantine objects added to DO collection Bemberg Silk, MB on envy and Miss der Nessessian lecture on sculpture at DO North American census of Byzantine religious medallions Ross theories on Byzantine rings of Alexander the Great, intaglio on gold of Cosmos with eagle and monogram further information on JT acquisition in Constantinople of in gold, with Emperor Constantine the Great's image of imperial couple of the Patrician Maria photograph of Byzantine rooms, opened at Louvre Byzantine scholarship curators in Moscow and Leningrad, Ross on usefulness of list of Downey on Fellowship at DO for Dvornik as American representative of, in Europe Dvornik on history of Europe and Dvornik's contributions to on enamels in DO collection international recognition of DO for Mass said by Dvornik in gratitude for Ross on Blisses' contributions to Byzantine silver in DO museum Ross on dating of Ross on study of Byzantium. See also Constantinople MB's inoculations for trip to Byzantium and the Slavs Symposium at DO (April 1952) agenda for Dvornik gratitude to Blisses for invitation to Blisses for