SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR. 
SUBMITTED TO THE TRUSTEES JAN. 8, 1896, 
To the Board of Trustees of the Missouri Botanical Garden: 
In compliance with the rules of the Board, the following 
report on the Missouri Botanical Garden and the Henry 
Shaw School of Botany is respectfully submitted. 
THE BOTANICAL GARDEN. 
So far as can be estimated, about one-third more people 
visited the Garden in 1895 than in 1894, owing largely to 
the frequent newspaper references to the Amazon Water- 
lilies of the Garden and Park. On the two open Sundays, 
when count was kept, the aggregate number was likewise 
in excess of previous years. On the June Sunday, with a 
temperature of 96.5° F., only 12,921 persons passed the 
gates, but on the September Sunday, which was in every 
way favorable to visitors, 30,151 persons were counted. 
As in previous years, these Sunday visitors were orderly, 
and showed no disposition to vandalism. During the year, 
318 copies of the Handbook of the Garden have been 
purchased at the gate. 
On the whole, the decorative features of the Garden were 
of the same character as in the preceding year. A con- 
siderable number of species of hardy plants was added, 
especially in the arboretum, along the wall south of the 
Museum Gate, and in the annular beds to the north of the 
observatory in the center of the Garden, where the herba- 
ceous plants are in approximate botanical sequence. At 
the east of the observatory two sections were devoted to a 
collection of hardy plants of decorative value. The Garden 
now contains 801 named species of trees, 561 of shrubs, 
1,129 of hardy perennial herbaceous flowering plants, of 
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