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Pinetum. The unusual and continued cold weather of the 
past winter, following the long drought of the previous sum- 
mer, was most disastrous to many conifers — some of those 
meeting disaster having been considered hardy in this lati- 
tude. The loss in the Garden collection, however, has 
proved considerably less than that reported from other sec- 
tions. The loss, with little exception, has been replaced 
with material transplanted from the nurseries, or with other 
plants of the same species secured from Mr. Lowell M. 
Palmer, who gave so largely to the collection the previous 
year. 
In the pinetum collection there are 251 species and varie- 
ties, including those at the nurseries ; of these 46 were put in 
place the past spring. In the pinetum itself there are 504 
trees, 87 of which were planted this season. 
The gardening operations here occupied part of the time 
of three men. 
Viticetum. ‘This collection contains 37 species and 59 
plants. As stated above, the gardening work here was per- 
formed by the force employed in the herbaceous grounds, 
the present undeveloped condition of the viticetum collection 
permitting of this. 
Conservatories 
With the exception of the temperate collections, one group 
of tropical plants, and a portion of the cacti, the arrangement 
of the collections here installed remains as it was last year. 
The temperate collections were previously located in 
houses nos. 12 and 13. The growth, both in size of indi- 
vidual plants and the number of species represented, had 
resulted in so much crowding, that it became necessary to 
furnish considerably more space for these collections. To 
provide this space, it was decided to devote to the temperate 
collections house no. 14 also, which had previously been 
given up to a group of tropical plants. This necessitated the 
removal to other quarters of the plants in this house, and 
room was provided for them in house no. 8, thus bringing 
