Sf» WILIS : STUDIES IN THE ORGANIZATION 



cannot be rubbed out, and these tickets are nailed to the trees, 

 always on the south side, and at 5 feel from the ground (to 

 prevenl interference by children). In the case of shrubs they 

 are wired to the branches on the south Bide. In the case of 

 herbaceous plants, the plants arc grown in Weils, each of which 

 i number attached to it. and care is taken to see that the 

 plants in beds aide by side do not intermingle. At the same 

 time that the number is affixed in the open, the same 

 number is written against the plant or bed in the Large 

 map of the garden kept at the office, so that the number 

 cannot be lost 



The numbers in the files have therefore no necessary relation 

 to one another. While Xo. 1 may he Dendrobium Maecar- 

 i hia-. No. 2 may he Yitis Linnsei, Xo. 3 Dipteroearpus 

 Zeylanicus, and so on. An index of names is kept, and the 

 numbers are entered on it. e.g., Dipterocarpus zeylanicus 

 Xos. 3, 1,815, 10.162. 



When the numbers become considerable, and the naming 

 fairly complete, a further index, giving the numbers in order, 

 and the name after each, should be compiled for the use of 

 BCientific visitors to the garden, so that they may take it round 

 with thmii. and gel the correct name for each plant, without 



having to depend too much on the Labelling. 



\',\ this means, any isolated fact about any single plant in the 

 gardens, take- it- place in a system of collected information 



where it is readily available, [{nothing is recorded about the 



plantfi no harm is done, and the index still works, while 



• \ tact recorded and tiled is a gain. And it is becoming 



more and more recognized that in the tropics at any rate 



plants nave considerable individual equations*, so t liai .».«/. . the 



date of leaf fall recorded for one plant of a given species may be 



quite different from that recorded foi a not her plant of the same 



It is almost needless i" point out the value <>f such a 



filiii in. not only to the regular workers in a garden but 



, to the -'lent i tic visitor \s ho may come for a diort time to 

 woi k t bei • 



