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tory range 2, 89; conservatory beds, 177; horticultural 
gardens 176; rose garden, 95; dahlia collection, 430; con- 
servatory court, 116; for doors at range 2, 42; pinetum, 144, 
total, 1,754. 
Accession numbers 47,782 to 49,193 have been recorded, 
making a total of 1,412 accessions. 
The number of packets of seeds received was 1,713, as 
follows: by gift 58; by purchase, 172, by exchange, 1,468; 
collected, 15. 
The following plants have been received: by gift, 24,494 
(including 17,575 tulip bulbs given by the General Bulb 
Growers’ Society at Haarlem, and 5,481 tulip bulbs given 
by John Scheepers, Inc.), valued at about $6,000; by ex- 
change, 414; by purchase (including miscellaneous bulbs), 
6,198; by collection made by members of the staff and 
others, 241; derived from seeds from various sources, 
1,362; total, 32,709. 310 specimens have been added to 
the herbarium of cultivated plants. 
The collections, including those native to the tract, now 
comprise approximately 241 families, 2,200 genera, and 
14,702 species and varieties. 
Miscellaneous Collections 
Here are included the following, in which no important 
changes have been made during the year: morphologic 
garden; economic garden; collections of desert plants 
placed during the summer in the court of conservatory 
range I; conservatory lily pools; aquatic garden; rhododen- 
dron collections in the vicinity of the lakes, at conserva- 
tory range 1, and in front of the museum, the last collec- 
tion having been re-arranged, all plants but the rhododen- 
drons having been eliminated from that group; rose bed 
east of conservatory range I; flower gardens in the im- 
mediate vicinity of conservatory range I, and at the 
elevated approach; American wood garden; magnolia 
garden; American thorn garden; white pine plantation; 
red pine plantation; lilac and peony garden. 
