(271 ) 
as follows: house no. 1, 75; no. 2, 138; no. 3, 53; no. 4, 
1,174; no. 5, 2,060; no. 6, 1,623; no. 7, 1,212; cellar and 
runway, 130. 46 show labels have been added. 
PropacaTine Houses anp Nurseries. The plants here, 
excluding those under the immediate control of the director 
of the laboratories, number 9,097. 1,376 packets of seeds 
have been received, as follows: by gift, 95; by exchange, 
1,307; collected on exhibitions, 16. In addition to the 
above, 720 packets have been derived from the collections 
on the grounds. House no. 2 and parts of other houses have 
been devoted to the plants under the control of the director 
of the laboratories. Houses 5 and 6 and a part of no. I 
have held the succulent plants, mainly cacti. The enclosure 
in the nursery has been much enlarged to accommodate the 
increased experimental work being carried on. 
LaBeinc, ReEcorpine AND Herparium. Accession num- 
bers 37,037 to 39,307 have been recorded, making a total of 
2,271 accessions. 4,579 show labels have been made, as 
follows: deciduous arboretum, 381; herbaceous grounds, 
597; economic garden, 28; morphologic garden, 12; west 
border, 170; pinetum, 322; roads and paths, 78; conserva- 
tory decorative beds, 593; decorative beds, elevated ap- 
proach to conservatories, 51; elevated approach border, 43; 
conservatory range I, 2,122; conservatory range 2, 46; rose 
bed, 136. 
The following plants have been acquired: by gift, 327, 
valued at about $650.00; by exchange, 1,087; by purchase, 
including 30,612 bulbs, 34,128; collections made by members 
of the staff and others, 1,041; derived from seeds from 
various sources, 2,481; total, 39,064. 
50 specimens have been added to the herbarium of 
cultivated plants. The collections contain approximately 
the following number of species and varieties: conserva- 
tories, 8,900; herbaceous, 2,900; fruticetum, 825; salicetum, 
40; deciduous schorentm 305; pinetum, 285; viticetum, 
50; total, 13,305. 
