The Garden Club of the Back Bay designed, planted and maintained the Boston Public Library Central Courtyard in the McKim Building for many years beginning in 1982.  The plantings were installed by Capizzi & Co, and border beds were filled with pachysandra which, despite a regimen of thinning and spraying, developed fungus.  Poor drainage was probably the culprit. So, at an emergency meeting called by then President Selma Freidman at her home, the Club voted to purchase a truckload of aged bovine “mulch” for $200 – $300 to spread over the acidic and possibly overcrowded pachysandra beds to remedy the fungus issue. Sometimes you have to spread that manure around to achieve your goals.