(25) 
no. 8, 608; no. 9, 142; no. 10, 958; no. 11, 408; no. 12, 
1,128; no. 13, 665; no. 14, 644; no. 15, 2,350; cellar, 87. 
on the completion, early in the summer, of the 
additional houses at range no. 2, the contents of houses 
nos. 7 and 8 were transferred to one of the new houses 
there. This permitted a re-arrangement here of the desert 
collections which were becoming much over-crowded. The 
orpine family, the South African desert plants, the fleshy 
spurges, the desert bromeliads, and one genus of cactuses 
were placed in house no. 5. No. 6 was given to the collec- 
tion of century plants and other American desert plants, 
and such large specimens as could not be satisfactorily 
included in the families allotted to the different houses. 
Nos. 7 and 8 were allotted to the cactus family, the Cere- 
oideae were placed in no. 7, and the Opuntioideae and 
Pereskioideae in no. 8. 
Rance No. 2. There have been 327 show labels added 
here. There are 3,538 plants, distributed in the houses as 
follows: west, 76; middle, 131; east, 63; west north and 
south, 1,112; east north and south, 2,140; runway, 16. 
The west north and south house, finished early in the past 
summer, contains the tropical dicotyledonous plants, those 
formerly in houses nos. 7 and 8 of range no. I. e en- 
largement of the east north and south house during the 
past summer permitted of a much better display of this 
collection, hitherto much over-crowded, and the incorpora- 
tion with it of many other ferns formerly at the propagating 
houses. 
PropacaTinG Houses anp NursERIES. <A great amount 
of propagating has been performed here. The experi- 
ments being conducted under the direction of the Director- 
of-the-Laboratories has required the propagation of con- 
siderable additional material, and will demand much more 
in the future; this will tax the present facilities. Parts 
of houses 2 and 4 have been given over to this experimental 
work, and more room will be required in the near future. 
Large numbers of bedding plants have also been propagated 
