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APPROPRIATION FOR THE PURCHASE OF THE HERBARIUM OF 
Dr. H. E. Hasse. 
1896. Cr. 
Nov. 30 $337.50 
Dr. 
Expended 337-50 
REPORT OF THE SECRETARY AND fDIRECTOR- 
IN-CHIEF. 
(Submitted and accepted January 10,2898.) 
To THE Boarp oF MANAGERS OF THE NEw YorkK Botan- 
ICAL GARDEN. 
Gentlemen: I have the honor to submit herewith my re- 
port as Secretary and Director-in-Chief for the year ending 
January 10, 1898: 
Planting. 
Nurserzes. The nurseries, located in the east side of 
the Garden grounds, have been carefully cultivated through- 
out the season, and have furnished several thousand plants 
for the Herbaceous Grounds and Borders. A range of cold 
frames was built along one edge of the eastern nursery early 
in April, and seeds of about 2,700 species of plants, received 
from the Royal Gardens at Kew, the Botanical Garden of 
Smith College, Northampton, Mass., and other sources, 
were sown in them and in the open nursery ground. A large 
proportion of these seeds germinated during the season, and 
those of the woody plants have been allowed to remain in the 
ground undisturbed, as many of them are expected to germi- 
nate next year. Young plants and seedlings of some 75 
species of shrubs and trees, not heretofore contained in the 
nurseries, have been obtained by purchase, gift and collec- 
tion. 
In October and November the nursery material of shrubs 
