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REPORT OF THE HEAD GARDENER 
To THE DiREcTOR-IN-CHIEF. 
Sir: I have the honor to submit herewith my report as 
Head Gardener for the year 1904. 
Systematic Plantations 
flerbaceous Grounds. No marked changes in arrange- 
ment have been effected here. Two gardeners and one 
laborer, with a third laborer for a part of the time, have car- 
ried on the gardening work ; this same force has also attended 
to the circles around the trees in the pinetum in the immediate 
vicinity, to the beds in the viticetum, and to those of the mor- 
phological garden. 
There are now represented in this collection, including 
those at the nurseries, 2,859 species and varieties, a slight 
decrease from the number reported last year. Owing to the 
severe weather of last winter and the forming of an exten- 
sive ice-crust on the lower parts of the grounds, the mortality 
among these plants was greater than usual. It was possible 
to replace some of the species from the duplicate collection 
at the nurseries, but in some cases this could not be done. 
Considerable difficulty was experienced during the year 
with the data labels. In several instances all the labels in a 
bed were pulled completely out of the ground and thrown 
into heaps. These labels are not easily removed, so it must 
have required the strength of more than a mere child to ac- 
complish it. 
Morphological Garden. The completion of the brook in 
this area has made possible the planting of a number of 
aquatic plants, thus considerably increasing the usefulness of 
this collection. There have been added here the past season 
62 species, making a total now in the collection of 125 
species. 
Fruticetum. To the collections here installed there were 
added, in great part by transferral from the nurseries, 48 
