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in the plant houses was made, inclosing the work yard to 
the southeast of the small plant house built in 1894, in 
accordance with the plans submitted last year.* As a part 
of the new house is treated naturally, without the custom- 
ary staging of florists’ establishments, it is expected that 
effective planting out may be secured; and the addition of 
something over twenty feet to the stove house of 1894 
will make possible a considerable increase in the number of 
orchids and foliage plants requiring a high temperature for 
their successful cultivation. 
Owing to the concurrence of several unusually favorable 
circumstances, it has been possible to add very materially 
to the contents of the herbarium during the year. In addi- 
tion to purchased current collections, which have this year 
been rather larger and more numerous than usual, the 
Garden has secured by purchase the large herbarium of the 
late J. H. Redfield, very rich in the earlier collections rep- 
resenting the flora of the United States; the herbarium of 
the late Dr. J. F. Joor, containing some 4,133 specimens, 
and largely adding to our representation of the flora of 
Louisiana and Texas; the large herbarium of Gustay Jermy, 
of San Antonio, Texas, which, in addition to a very full 
set of Carpathian plants, contains a nearly complete collec- 
tion of the plants of Gillespie County, Texas, and a large 
number of other plants from the same State; an important 
prelinnean herbarium formed by Boehmer and Ludwig, 
and illustrating in part the Flora Lipsiae (1750) of the 
former; and 2,163 specimens collected in China by Dr. A. 
Henry. 
Some of these sets have not yet been incorporated in the 
herbarium, but in the year past 23,772 specimens pur- 
chased, 231 collected by Garden employees, and 5,748 
specimens received as gifts or in exchange, have been 
inserted in the cases; and 514 unmounted specimens,— 
mostly sets of Azorean duplicates,— were distributed to 
* Rept. 8: 87, 41. 
