12 



The only plants received during the year were as under : - 



Professor MacOwan, Government Botanist, Capetown, 

 5 curious Gape plants. 



Plants were sent away as follows : — 



W. Thorpe, England, 1 box Asparagus plumosus. 

 Botanic Gardens, Cambridge, 1 case containing 44 plants 

 Reasoner Bros., Florida, 3 Kaempferia Etlielse. 

 .). O'Briep, London, 12 plants Gladiolus oligophlebius. 



The following Institutions were supplied with plants free to 

 the amounts stated : — 



Durban Home 



St. Faith's Mission 



Addington Hospital 



Durban Corporation (Waterworks) . 



Baptist Church 



Queen's Hospital, Eshowe 



Wesleyan Church, Greyville 



£21 13 



In taking credit for plants supplied free to Govornment 

 Institutions, Missions, &c, I prefer to state value, not number 

 of plants supplied, as to give number only would most likely 

 be very misleading. 



During the year 1899 we received 1 66 plants and 490 packets 

 of seeds as stated in my Report for that year, the result was as 

 under : — 



. £0 18 







. 3 4 







9 17 







. 4 10 







. 12 



6 



. 1 16 







. 15 



6 



PLANTS. 





SEEDS. 



Dead on arrival 



10 



Failed to germinate ... ... 130 



Died afterwards 



. 6 



Germinated but died afterwards 115 



Planted in Garden . 



16 



Distributed ... ... 50 



Still in pots . . . 



119 



Still in pots ... ... 72 



Previously in stock.. 



. 15 



Annuals and vegetables ... 103 





166 



Not suitable for our climate . . 20 



490 



In consequence of the long coniinued drought but few plants 

 were put out during the year. The following were, however, 

 planted at different times, and are still growing : — 



NAME. RECEIVED PROM 



A'irnpyron scabrum, Beauv. O. E. Menzel. 



Arunlinaria Hookeriana, Willd Cambridge 



