TWENTIETH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR. 



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includes 1,963 species or varieties; and 6,194 packets of these 

 seeds, valued at S309.07 have been sent to correspondents. 

 Living plants to the number of 217, valued at S22.90, have 

 been distributed in Hke manner. Aside from these exchange 

 distributions, 320 dupHcate plants and 1,364 bedding plants 

 removed from the grounds in autumn, or remaining unused on 

 completion of the spring planting, were given to the public 

 schools. The surplus chrysanthemum plants which remained 

 fresh at the end of the November exhibition, and many cut 

 flowers from it, were presented to hospitals and other charities, 

 180 plants having been so distributed. 



DIAGRAM A. 



SPECIES AND VARIETIES CULTIVATED 



The plant records for the past year show that 1,080 species 

 or varieties not cultivated in 1907 were added, and 719 lost or 

 discarded, — a net gain of 361, bringing the nominal number in 

 cultivation up to 18,277, in contrast with the 17,916 reported 

 a year ago.* It appears from the appended diagram (A) that 

 no period in the history of the Garden has been marked by so 

 great progress in this direction as the four years from 1903 to 

 1907. A quinquennial inventory, however, shows that the 

 number of forms cultivated to-day is only 11,464, essentially 

 the same as five years ago (11,357), so that no actual pro- 



* Rept. Mo. Bot. Gard. 19 : 13. 



