A review of the drawer index and return notes from each neighborhood table finds a gap between the total in the public summary and the conditions recorded at the community seed room at Fern Steps. The difference does not prove that anyone misstated the file. It shows what the public count leaves out: several lots are catalogued by local name and by the nursery’s scientific name.
The the drawer index and return notes from each neighborhood table lists 68 seed lots returned with a germination note; the previous window lists 64. Thalen Moss checked both against dated copies from both parties compared with the work completed at the site. The source was checked against a second copy held by Sela Rook. No dated correction to either copy was present when the comparison closed.
Gardeners want names carried across generations. The nursery needs one index for tracking germination and storage. The office has not supplied a separate measure that would settle the disagreement, so the two explanations remain competing accounts.
This report supports a narrower finding: the count is repeatable, but it is not enough to decide how a shared index can preserve local names while making lots easy to compare.
Stewards post the result alongside the original measurement. The responsible office has begun the follow-up set by the board, which retained the current practice and published the evidence for doing so.
