ELEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR, 
SUBMITTED TO THE TRUSTEES JANUARY 10, 1900. 
To the Board of Trustees of the Missouri Botanical Garden: 
The following report on the Missouri Botanical Garden 
and the Henry Shaw School of Botany is respectfully 
submitted in compliance with your rules. 
THE BOTANICAL GARDEN. 
During the past season, the decorative features of the 
Garden have been maintained on about the same lines as in 
previous years. In the spring a very small synoptical col- 
lection representative of the principal natural orders of 
flowering plants was installed in the central part of the 
‘Garden, where it is proposed to continue it as a convenient 
means of enabling teachers in the public schools to 
demonstrate to their pupils the characters of the larger 
plant groups. The collection embraces 318 species, 
pertaining to as many genera, and representing 100 
orders. A group of trees and shrubs, comprising 140 
species and 13 varieties, was set in the autumn at the 
east of the Director’s residence in conformity with the gen- 
eral plans suggested by the landscape architects of the 
Board for the future treatment of the grounds now com- 
prised in the Garden, and a small mass of evergreens 
thought to be capable of enduring the increasing smoke of 
our atmosphere was set out near the southern apex of the 
present arboretum. 
Considerable additions have been made to the plants 
cultivated in the several departments of the institution, the 
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