City of Seattle Records

rooted cuttings, seedlings and crowded plants The Nursery stock has been taken. The Nursery is now being divided into the seedling, perrennial and wooded plant sections for greater convenience of their care and system. While the overcrowded stock will be planted out into the newly cleared portions. The seedling department has to be enlarged to accomodate the large increase from the tree shrub & plant seeds added this fall.

The hot beds are in progress of construction. The green house is now stocked with its collection of tender plants for winter propagation for next years plantings in the Parks [Gates?] a number of plants etc have been received for exchanges:

The collection of indigenous plant shrubs and the seeds made by the Superintendent amount now to 116 different varieties of the Puget Sound country, and cost him $145.70 not charged up to the eity of which he offers to the City one half of the plants raised therefore. It is intended and hoped that this nucleus will be the ground work for establishing in Seattle the Pacific Coast Arboretum, as well as add