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plants. It is also difficult to label the plants so that the labels are 
not concealed. The educational value of the collections is thus 
curtailed. 
With the conservatories, as with the plantations, the need of 
propagating houses is exceedingly urgent, not only for propagation, 
but for the care of plants that have become sickly, or that need 
special attention and nursing, or temporary withdrawal from the 
public conservatories for other reasons. 
Greenhouse accommodations for experimental cultures in con- 
nection with the plant breeding, plant disease, and other investiga- 
tions now in progress are wholly inadequate. 
The need of a nursery and experimental plot would best be met 
by securing a tract of land of several acres within easy access of 
the Garden. An inexpensive propagating house could be erected 
on this plot, and this could serve for experimental cultures as well 
as for routine propagation and other needs in connection with the 
maintenance of our hardy and tender collections. 
The congestion in the public conservatories can, of course, be 
met only by erecting a new range. Such a range was included in 
the original plans for the development of the Garden. The site 
set aside for it is now serving as the experimental garden, and the 
erection of the new conservatories would, therefore, make it im- 
perative to provide an experimental plot elsewhere. 
Endowment for Research—The special research fund of $50,- 
000 secured and, in part, contributed by Mr. Alfred T. White will 
provide for work now in progress for only three or four years. 
To establish this work in perpetuity, to make possible its normal 
and logical expansion, including salaries, equipment, traveling ex- 
penses, publication of results, ef cetera, permanent funds are 
needed sufficient to insure an income of not less than $25,000 a 
year. Ultimately this amount would need to be increased. | 
To secure the additional land and plant houses recommended 
above, to provide for additional annual maintenance, and to estab- 
lish the scientific work on a permanent basis, the Botanic Garden 
endowment fund should be increased as soon as possible by not 
less than $500,000. In time this amount should be increased to 
not less than one million dollars. 
The need of a new fence to inclose the grounds, stone steps and 
