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as may be used in ribbon-gardening or for other exclusively ornamental 
purposes. 
4. To provide fire-proof quarters for the invaluable herbarium of the 
late Dr. George Engelmann, and to immediately mount it in the proper 
manner so as to insure its preservation and availability for scientific use. 
Also, to provide for and add to the general herbarium (based on that of 
Bernhardi) now at the garden with the special object of ultimately 
making it complete in good representatives of American plants. 
5. To arrange, bind, and index the books and pamphlets at the garden. 
Also, to provide more ample but equally safe accommodations for the 
library, to bring it up to date as rapidly as possible, to enter subscrip- 
tions for periodical publications, and to keep it abreast of the times, and 
in the most useful form, by the purchase of important publications, as 
they shall appear, and by the proper indexing of periodicals and pam- 
phlets, 
6. To secure a botanical museum, containing material needed for study 
or calculated to advance general or special knowledge of botany. 
7. To direct the main energy of research for the present toward assist- 
ing in the completion of a systematic account of the flowering plants of 
North America, by the publication of monographs of different Orders and 
Genera, illustrated when this may seem desirable; and to specially culti- 
vate representatives of such groups for purposes of study. 
8. To gradually acquire and utilize facilities for research in vegetable 
histology and physiology, the diseases and injuries of plants, and other 
branches of botany and horticulture, as special reason for developing one 
or the other may appear. 
9. Tomake the facilities of the garden usefulin botanical and horticul- 
tural instruction, as they increase and opportunity for such work appears: 
meantime, in all feasible ways, to attract to the School of Botany students 
of promise, and to provide for their instruction and the best use of their 
time as investigators. 
10. To take steps looking to the appointment of six ‘ garden pupils,’ — 
youths with at least an elementary English education, who shall be 
regarded as apprentices in the garden, working under the direction of the 
head gardener and foreman, and shall hold scholarships yielding $300.00 
per year each, together with free lodging near or in the garden, and free 
tuition in the School of Botany; and who, after having worked for six or 
more years (as shall ultimately prove best*) in the different departments of 
the garden, and proved proficient in its practical work, may be admitted 
to examination for a certificate of proficiency in the theory and practice 
of gardening. 
11, To have in mind, in appointing associates for the Director, their 
special aptitude in some one of the branches indicated above, so that 
* This time was subsequently reduced to four years. — Rept. Mo. Bot. 
Gard. 4317. 
