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mens. It is intended to develop this collection further during 
the coming year. 
Conservatories. No change has been made in the gen- 
eral arrangement of the collections here installed. The 
crowded condition in several of the houses has made neces- 
sary some rearrangement in certain cases. Owing to the 
increase in size of many of the specimens in the palm collec- 
tion in the large central dome, more space became very de- 
sirable. This desire was satisfied by disposing of some of 
the larger duplicates by exchange, and by removing a 
number of specimens of several of the temperate species into 
no. 13, one of the houses devoted to the temperate collections. 
This rearrangement has greatly improved the appearance of 
the collection of palms, permitting a better display of indi- 
vidual specimens and showing the graceful beauty of their 
trunks and foliage, features in which the public is much 
interested. A number of specimens in nos. 7 and 8 having 
become too large for those houses, it became imperative to 
transfer them to no. 4, thus making necessary a rearrange- 
ment of that house to accommodate them. In house no. 13 
a group has been made, in the northwest corner, of the palms 
removed from the dome and of some of the tree-ferns from 
temperate regions taken from house no. 11. This has 
greatly improved the character and appearance of the col- 
lections in that house, as the extension of these plants into 
the temperate flora is thus indicated. 
There have been placed in the conservatories during the 
year 2,106 show labels. There are now in these collections, 
including those temporarily at the propagating houses, 7,761 
species and varieties, representing 1,347 genera and 204 
families. The total number of plants in the conservatories 
is 8,617, the number in each house being indicated in the 
following table: 
House No. 1 220 House No. 4 329 
2 601 5 1,480 
3 320 6 660 
