(320) 
LaBe.inc, REcorpDING, AND Hersparium. The work of 
recording accessions, the manufacture of labels, and the 
preparation of all herbarium specimens made from plants 
in the conservatories and in the hardy woody collections 
have been performed by one gardener and an apprentice. 
Accession numbers 43,629 to 45,194 have been recorded, 
making a total of 1,566 accessions. 5,230 show labels have 
been made, as follows: deciduous arboretum, 45; fruti- 
cetum, 335; herbaceous grounds, 501; economic garden, 60; 
morphologic garden, 7; west border, 9; border at elevated 
approach, 13; rose bed, 86; iris garden, 54; lilac group, 73; 
pinetum, 410; trees along roads and paths, 73; conservatory 
flower beds, 973; conservatory range I, 1,506; conservatory 
range 2, 1,049; conservatory court, 36. 
The accessions in plants are as follows: by gift, 4,899 (of 
which 4,012 are bulbs), valued at about $785; by exchange, 
553; by purchase, 10,440 (including 7,075 bulbs); by col- 
lections made by members of the staff and others, 908; 
derived from seeds from various sources, 1,456; total, 
18,256. 
The herbarium of cultivated plants has been increased by 
about 800 specimens. ‘There are in the collections approxi- 
mately the following number of species and varieties: con- 
servatories, 9,250; herbaceous grounds, including 39 kinds 
in the American wood garden not represented here, 3,189; 
fruticetum, 932; salicetum, 48; deciduous arboretum, 366; 
pinetum, 271; viticetum, 50; total 14,106. 
Miscellaneous Collections 
Under this heading are contained: the morphologic 
garden; the economic garden; the collections of desert plants 
placed during the summer in the court of conservatory 
range1; the conservatory lily pools; the aquatic garden; the 
rhododendron banks in the vicinity of the lakes; the rose 
bed east of conservatory range 1; the flower gardens in the 
immediate vicinity of conservatory range 1, at the elevated 
approach, and the west border; the American wood garden 
