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to John R. Sheehan & Co. The contract price was $68,300 and 
no extras have been added; the cost of the portion of the range 
previously built was $112,000 ; the total cost of the whole range 
has therefore been $180, 300. 
The part just finished consists of five houses, two of which are 
divided by glass partitions, there thus being seven compartments 
in the five houses: these added to the eight houses already filled 
with plants, afford fifteen compartments in all, in the entire range. 
The ground-plan of the completed range is shown by the ac- 
companying figure, and a general view of the houses, photo- 
rgotanica ‘ 
; Be ‘ Garg, 
graphed just before their completion from the hill southeast of 
them, is shown on Plate IX.; the work of fitting up the new 
