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interest and a great attraction to the public; it was 
formerly opened on November 8. A flower show was 
arranged in this house for that opening, the show con- 
tinuing until the following Monday. This house has 
proved well adapted for the holding of flower shows, at 
least during the fall months, the flowers keeping well; 
one of the bush chrysanthemum plants was not removed 
until the middle of December, and some of the begonia 
plants exhibited were still in excellent condition at the 
end of that month, and apparently good for some time more. 
The contents of this house comprise plants formerly in 
houses 12, 13, and 14 of range 1, with the addition of a 
collection of about 30 species of acacias. 
Propagating Houses and Nurseries. Here the classes of 
soldiers and sailors have the use of house 3 and part of 
house 4; the Director-of-the-Laboratories has part of 
house 4 and the two side benches in house 2. Exclusive 
of the plants used by the Director-of-the-laboratories for 
his special studies, there are here 6,147 plants. There 
have been received 856 packets of seeds, as follows: by 
gift, 67; by purchase, 463; by exchange, 296; collected, 30. 
Labeling, Recording and Herbarium 
The head gardener’s assistant has had charge of this 
work. The services of a label boy have been available 
for only six weeks, with a consequent great reduction 
in the usual output. The head gardener’s assistant has 
made the labels which were most urgently needed. The 
following labels have been prepared: deciduous arboretum, 
429; fruticetum, 196; conservatory range I, 261; con- 
servatory range 2, 320; conservatory beds, 49; horticultural 
gardens, 120; rose garden, 126; dahlia collection, 254; total, 
1,755; 35 family signs have also been prepared for the 
herbaceous grounds. 
Accession numbers 47,074 to 47,781 have been recorded, 
making a total of 708 accessions. 
The following plants have been received: by gift, 11,364 
