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now distributed to almost every botanical establishment 
in the world, and to many private gardens, in increasing 
numbers. Many Colonial, Agricultural, and Forestry 
Departments send requests for them, and many a new 
botanical garden is indebted to La Mortola. In 1900, 
6378 packets of seeds were sent out; in 1901, 7837; in 
1902, 9331 ; in 1908 they numbered 13,085. 
A second alphabetical catalogue was compiled in the 
spring of 1897 by the then Curator, Mr. Curt Dinter, now 
Government Botanist in German South West Africa; this 
contains about the same number of species as that of 1889. 
Since then no efforts have been spared to develop La 
Mortola into an important subtropical botanical garden. A 
small Botanical Museum, a Herbarium of cultivated and 
indigenous plants, and a Library containing the most 
necessary botanical works, chiefly on systematic and geo- 
graphical botany, have been gradually formed. All three— 
Museum, Herbarium, and Library—receive constant addi- 
tions and are now placed in a special building. 
Besides the annual distribution of seeds, fresh and dried 
material has been liberally sent to many laboratories, and 
students have been freely admitted to the garden. The 
introduction of new plants has been continued, and all 
the available land has been more intensively cultivated 
and planted. 
Among the chief contributors of seeds and plants we 
are indebted to many Botanic Gardens—chiefly to Kew, 
Cambridge, Glasnevin, Edinburgh, Oxford, Dahlem-Berlin, 
Bonn, Darmstadt, Dresden, Freiburg i. Br., Giessen, Gét- 
tingen, Hamburg, Karlsruhe, Marburg, Munich, Strassburg, 
Prague, Schonbrunn, Vienna, Bale, Zurich, Amsterdam, 
St. Petersburg, Tiflis, Paris, Antibes (Villa Thuret), Lyons, 
Marseilles, Montpellier, Genoa, Rome, Naples, Palermo, 
Parma, St. Louis, Washington, Buitenzorg, Hong Kong, 
Buenos Aires, &c., also to the establishment of Haage & 
Schmidt at Erfurt, Vilmorin-Andrieux of Paris, and others. 
For plants from South Africa we are indebted chiefly to 
the late Prof. MacOwan, who was one of the oldest and most 
generous correspondents of Daniel and Thomas Hanbury; to 
Mr. Arderne and the late Mr. Harry Bolus of Cape Town, 
Dr. Brunnthaler of Vienna, Prof. Burtt-Davy of Pretoria, 
Mr. Hislop of Pietermaritzburg, to Mr. Hutchins, formerly 
of Cape Town, to the late Max Leichtlin of Baden-Baden, 
to Dr. R. Marloth of Cape Town, Mr. Medley Wood of 
Durban, and to Dr. §. Schonland of Grahamstown. For 
