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desirable to build another portion of the new range. There 

 have been added 2,798 show labels during the year, of which 

 number 2,615 were zinc and 183 lead. Signs giving informa- 

 tion as to the location of plants removed from this range 

 were placed where necessary. 



In this range there are now 10,718 plants, distributed 

 as indicated in the following table: 



House no. 1 214 House no. 9 200 



2 221 10 930 



,103 



Range no. 2. The tree-ferns and the larger specimens 

 of the other ferns and related groups, transferred from range 

 no. 1, have been placed in the middle and west houses of 

 the transverse range; the east house has been allotted to 

 the collection of cycads. The remainder of the ferns and 

 related groups have been located in the low north and south 

 house. They have been arranged in botanical sequence, 

 the details of which have already been described in a recent 

 number of the Garden Journal. 



The total number of plants in this range is 1,167, dis- 

 tributed as indicated in the following table: 



West house.. .. 76 East house. .. 48 

 Middle " . . 120 Low " 923 



Show labels to the number of 413 have been prepared 

 and placed in position; of this number 342 were of zinc 

 and 71 of lead. 



Propagating Houses and Nurseries. As for a number 

 of years past, a great part of houses nos. 5 and 6 has been 

 occupied by the cactus and orpine families, and a portion 

 of house no. 4 has been reserved for the use of the Director 

 of the Laboratories. In the remaining houses are dupli- 



