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House No. 7 783 House No. 12 830 
8 706 13 445 
9 125 14 620 
ro 486 5 777 
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Propagating Houses and Nursertes. The study collec- 
tion of cactuses has now grown so large that it has been nec- 
essary to assign to it additional space, and therefore a large 
part of no. 6, in addition to no. 5, is devoted to it. s in 
past years, house no. 4 has been set aside for the use of the 
Director of the Laboratories and the students under his direc- 
tion. Portions of the nurseries have also been reserved for 
such uses. 
Packets of seed to the number of 230 have been received 
from outside sources. During the year 190 packets of seed 
have been collected in the various plantations, mostly annu- 
als, to safeguard the collections. 
There are now in the propagating houses, excluding those 
in no. 4, 7,324 plants and go seed pans. In the cold frames 
there are 591 plants. Many duplicates were disposed of 
during the past year to make room for the collections brought 
in by the Garden expeditions. 
In the nurseries there are 1,164 specimens of deciduous 
trees and shrubs; 880 specimens of conifers; and 2,000 
specimens of herbaceous plants. 
Labeling, Recording and Herbarium. As was the case 
last year, the details of this work have been carried out under 
the direction of two garden aids. Mr. Norman Taylor has 
had charge of the tender collections and of the work on the 
card catalogue. Mr. W. W. Eggleston has had under his 
direction the hardy collections, the work of accessioning, and 
the preparation of show labels. 
In this work have been employed three or four apprentices 
under the immediate direction of the garden aids. One of 
these has attended to the collecting of seeds, the making of 
herbarium specimens of the hardy collections and the drying 
and mounting of all specimens made from the cultivated 
