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REPORTS FOR THE YEAR 1895. 
REPORT OF THE OFFICERS OF THE BOARD. 
SUBMITTED TO THE TRUSTEES JANUARY 8TH, 1896. 
To the Board of Trustees of the Missouri Botanical Garden: 
The financial results for the past year have been entirely 
satisfactory. The receipts from rentals have exceeded 
those of the previous year over $4,500.00. 
All houses vacant at the beginning of the year have been 
rented, and at present all the properties of the Board are 
occupied at satisfactory rentals with the exception of two 
small dwellings, yielding jointly $37.00 per month. 
All necessary repairs have been made during the year 
upon the properties of the Board, and they can be consid- 
ered in fairly good condition; many of them, however, are 
very old and rapidly decaying and require constant atten- 
tion to keep them in tenantable condition. 
The Garden has been kept in good condition, some 
improvements have been made in the arrangement of the 
Garden and Fruticetum, and valuable additions have been 
made to the collection of plants. The extension of the 
water system of the Garden, begun in 1890, has been car- 
ried on during the year, and now the entire Garden is fully 
supplied with water for irrigation purposes. 
In the 33d Section of the 4th Clause of Mr. Shaw’s will, 
he expressed the desire that a small cottage be provided as 
a residence for a man, to be employed, whose duty it 
should be to keep in order the Mausoleum and the grove 
and the grounds around it, which the Board have carried 
out by erecting south of the main entrance to the Garden, 
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