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Labelling, Accessioning and Herbarium. 



Two apprentices have been kept constantly busy in this 

 department. One has had in charge the manufacture and 

 lettering of exhibition labels for the various plantations and 

 the conservatories, and in addition has practically done all 

 the sign work, other than that performed by the printer, 

 which has been required in various parts of the buildings. 

 For the conservatories 1,383 zinc labels and for the trees 306 

 have been manufactured, painted and lettered. In addition 

 to these, 221 wooden labels for the fruticetum and 524 for 

 the herbaceous grounds have been painted and lettered. This 

 makes a total of 2,434 show labels for exhibition purposes. 

 About 75 of the family signs in the herbaceous grounds were 

 also repainted and lettered. 



The other assistant has attended to the accessioning of all 

 plants and seedlings, the writing of data labels, the collect- 

 ing of herbarium specimens, and the posting of the card cat- 

 alogue from the accession books. During the past year 

 accession numbers 4,890-10,650 have been registered, show- 

 ing a total of 5,761 accessions. To the herbarium of culti- 

 vated plants 1,291 sheets have been added. 



During the year there have been accessioned 15,736 plants ; 

 of these 8,561 were derived from seed sown during the spring. 

 There are many other small seedlings, not yet large enough 

 for potting. . 



During the fall the data labels on all plants in the arbore- 

 tum, pinetum, salicetum and fruticetum were inspected, and 

 where necessary removed to smaller branches to prevent the 

 attaching wire cutting into the bark ; where labels were miss- 

 ing new ones were supplied. The plants requiring them in 

 the herbaceous grounds and the herbaceous plants in the nur- 

 series were all supplied with the usual zinc data label. The 

 wooden labels for the seeds of shrubs and trees sown in the 

 cold frames, and for seedlings there too small to be trans- 

 planted, were replaced with new ones plainly written, so that 

 all data may be preserved. 



