6. Supreme Court Building and Grounds


The U.S. Supreme Court Building is richly adorned with decorative carvings in marble and wood, decorative metal and plaster work and decorative painting.


ARCHITECTURAL FINE ART1


6.1 Pediments (Exterior)


6.2 Sculpture (Exterior)


6.3 Reliefs


6.4 Light Posts with Reliefs (Exterior)


6.5 Bronze Door (Set) (Exterior)


1 AS OF


10/01/18 2


2 4 2 1 AS OF


9/30/19 CHANGE 2


- 2 4 2 1 - - - - GENERAL


CONDITION Excellent


Excellent Good Poor to Fair Good


The collectible fine art within the Supreme Court does not fall under the AOC’s jurisdiction and is cared for by the curator of the Supreme Court.


7. U.S. Botanic Garden


The U.S. Botanic Garden (USBG) maintains a collection of living plants used to fulfill the mission of the institution. The collection is categorized as follows:


 Plants of historical or current institutional significance (e.g., individuals or descendants from the Wilkes expedition, commemorative gifts from foreign governments and descendants of plants of American historical significance)


 Plants appearing on approved permanent landscape planting plans for the Conservatory, National Garden, Bartholdi Park and the Production Facility


 Plants listed for rotation into permanent exhibits in the Conservatory, National Garden or Bartholdi Park


 Plants used in ongoing education programs


 Plants needed to support future exhibits or programs and whose quality or relative unavailability in the commercial trade justifies inclusion in the permanent collection


 Orchid species and selected orchid cultivars


 Listed rare and endangered species received under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Flora and Fauna repository agreement, through interagency transfer or by other means


 Medicinal plants whose quality or relative unavailability in the commercial trade justifies inclusion in the permanent collection


 Plants used for accent and horticultural propagation stock, including those obtained for trial performance under local conditions


Plants are used for exhibition, study and exchange with other institutions. Noteworthy collections include economically significant plants, medicinal plants, orchids, cacti and succulents, bromeliads, cycads and plants of Mediterranean regions. The USBG’s gardens and living collections are important resources, and are made available for the study of threatened plants and their conservation. The USBG staff maintain extensive computerized records of the plant collections, which track the location, condition and provenance of each addition. A database with this information is available to the public on the USBG website, www.usbg.gov/plant-collections. Collections are continually reviewed for accuracy in identification.


Architectural Feature


OUTDOOR SCULPTURE


AS OF 10/01/18 AS OF


7.1 Fountains with Sculpture 11


1 Surface is abraded and needs conservation. Living Botanical Assets


The table identifies the USBG’s inventory of living botanical assets. Plant inventories for FY 2019 and the prior five years are provided to facilitate comparison. At the end of FY 2019, the USBG held more than 9,000 accessions including more than 43,000 individual plants at the Conservatory and the Blue Plains Production Facility in southwest Washington D.C. The USBG maintains more than 6,000 unique taxa in its collections.


All Plants (Including Orchid Collection) FY


2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019


1


ACCESSIONS1 11,419 11,626 10,423 9,468 9,105 9,651


NAMES (TAXA)2


7,470 7,610 6,803 6,227 6,041 6,282


INDIVIDUALS3 57,942 60,574 47,564 44,026 41,470 43,523


DEACCESSIONS4 842 639


1,958 707


1,017 1,531


Current number of accessions assigned to living plants. An individual accession number might include multiple lots (divisions) that might include multiple individual plants.


2


Number of names for living plants in our database. This includes species names, cultivars, varieties, etc. and is restricted to only the names for plants that are living at the Garden. In many cases, the USBG has numerous accessions (from different times, sources, etc.) of the same named plant.


3


This number captures individual plant counts and is thus quite a bit higher that the number of accessions due to accessions that have multiple individuals (note: this number has a high degree of inaccuracy).


4


Number of accession numbers that have been deaccessioned year-to-date. This is due to plants dying or being composted/discarded due to disease or change in institutional need.


9/30/19 CHANGE -


GENERAL


CONDITION Fair1


130


Section III • Financial Information


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