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“1. No suitable place in the Garden properly to care for and house 
during the winter ne one tools and implements, which are the 
pone of the City o ork. 
‘2. No room in our ee large enough to assemble an audience of 
over forty to fifty persons, although the ike attendance at our classes for 
the. month of June was approximately I s. 
“3, Requests from high schools ae grammar schools asking for ac- 
commodations for their classes in our building and greenhouses, amounting 
to almost double our eek 2 meet the demand, and this, in the first year 
of our eae this opport 
al y inadequate ark inappropriate office accommodations for 
our “RE force, as I think was quite evident to you on your visit 
to the build 
a cee G) ees for a public toilet on our grounds, notwithstanding 
the fact that, in addition to the 1,500 pupils attending our classes monthly, 
we have a large attendance of casual visitors to the conservatories and 
grounds. 
“6. The only entrance to our building is through a door which is in- 
tended to be a service door almost exclusively. This is the entrance from 
Washington Avenue,—wholly inappropriate for a city institution like the 
Garden, and at times very annoying and disagreeable for visitors, who are 
obliged to use this door, often at times when coal is being delivered in 
front of it, or when large numbers of workmen are entering or leaving. 
“7, Lack of room to install, in,a way to make it accessible, more than 
half of our herbarium, of over 100,000 specimens. The accessibility of 
this herbarium is absolutely necessary in order that we may Be y ad- 
minister our collections of living plants in the conservatories and grounds. 
This herbarium at present See a room which is ics need to 
relieve the congestion of clas 
“8. Lack of sufficient pare space to properly care for such plants 
as we now have, making it practically impossible for us to increase our 
collections, on account of the impossibility of securing a sufficient ae 
sity of temperature and humidity conditions for the various kinds 
plants. The educational value of this phase of our work in Ecce 
with the instruction in the public schools of the ae can hardly be over- 
estimated, but it is not possible for us to expand it at all. Ninety-five 
we cent. of the plants we now possess have been presented to the Garden 
s gift ae and are open to the general public, free of charge, every day in 
ae As soon as we have other accommodations, we shall be able to 
fill the space at once with other gifts, without expense to the city. 
9. The construction of the remainder of the conservatories will give 
s the service basement which is so urgently needed for storing our agri- 
Merete implements and tools, and forthe accommodation of our workmen. 
“to. Finally, may I emphasize once more the fact that if this appro- 
priation for which we are now asking is granted, it will in all probability 
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