4 CATALOGUE OF NON-HERBACEOUS PHANEROGAMS. 
Once the permanent marks were erected, the work of ticketing the © 
trees, shrubs and climbers was begun in December 1908. From zinc 
sheets blank tickets were cut out, each ticket being 8 cm. long by 2 cm. — 
broad to allow room for five or six figures in a line. Towards the right 
or lower end of each ticket the numbers were stamped, the actual 
figures being about 1°3 c.m. long—large enough to be easily read. 
The actual size of a ticket is represented in the adjoining figure. 
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The tickets were numbered from 1 upwards consecutively and 
the actual ticketing was done in the following way. Every afternoon 
Mr. G. H. Cave, the officiating Curator of the Garden, selected a row OF 
rows or a group of squares and from the permanent marks fixed the 
corners of the squares that were to be worked over the following 
morning and temporarily marked them with bamboo stakes, On the 
morning of the following day the Superintendent, the Curator of the 
Herbarium, the Curator of the Garden, several Indian assistants and 
some coolies took up operations. The coolies ran coarse tape from 
stake to stake so that each square in turn was temporarily lined out on 
the ground. Then every tree and shrub within the square had a 
numbered zinc label, nailed on or otherwise attached to it, invariably 
on the northern aspect, the numbers going on consecutively and 
irrespective of the order of the squares. Simultaneously, a list giving 
the numbers of the plants and their provisional identification, square 
by square, was drawnup. For about three months this work went on 
without a break until the whole Garden was gone over thoroughly and 
a rough list comprising over 13,000 trees and shrubs—every one of 
which can now be referred with comparative ease to its place in the 
Garden—was completed. In connection with this part of the work the 
writer desires to acknowledge the cheerful assistance rendered by 
Mr. G. H. Cave—on whom the heavy work of the preparation of 
the ground each day devolved—by Mr. W. W. Smith, M.A., 
Curator of the Herbarium, by Janardun Nasker, Assistant in the 
Herbarium, and by Mr. R. E. Cooper. 
In going through the list to check the 
