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collection. Mr. E. B. Southwick has had charge of the 
work here, as well as in the Economic Garden and Mor- 
phologic Garden adjoining. 
Fruticetum. The representation now here includes 
52 families, 141 genera, and 1,035 species and varieties; 
the number of specimens is 2,960. 
SALICETUM. There are 159 specimens here, representing 
2 genera, 39 species and varieties. 
Decipvous ArBoretumM. Including those native to 
the tract and still at the nurseries, there are in this collec- 
tion 411 species and varieties, 59 genera and 31 families. 
There are 1,120 trees. 
Prnetum. Here there are about 1,669 specimens, repre- 
senting 3 families, 20 genera, and 267 species and varieties. 
130 show labels have been placed here. 
Viticetum. Here there are about 50 species and varieties. 
Conservatories. The collections here comprise about 
9,356 species and varieties, representing 207 families. 
Owing to the shortage of coal it was necessary about the 
middle of last January to combine the contents of range 2 
with those of range 1. This made necessary dispensing 
with many duplicates and cutting down the representation 
to as few individuals as possible, so that the collections in 
both ranges could be placed in one. Even after this had 
been done, range 1 was still greatly crowded, a condition 
not the best for the growing of plants. There are now in 
range I, 13,447 specimens, distributed as follows: house 1, 
361; house 2, 793; house 3, 879; house 4, 762; house 5, 
1,616; house 6, 360; house 7, 850; house 8, 678; house 9, 
143; house 10, 1,005; house 11, 466; house 12, 1,050; house 
13, 668; house 14, 1,066; house 15, 2,735; cellar, 15. 
1,240 show labels have been placed here. 
PropacaTinc Houses anp Nurseries. For the pur- 
pose of economizing in coal it was decided to close two of 
the houses for this winter. This necessitated sending 
many plants to range 1 and dispensing with all duplicates 
possible. There are now here, excluding those used for 
