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REPORTS FOR THE YEAR 1900. 
REPORT OF THE OFFICERS OF THE BOARD. 
SUBMITTED TO THE TRUSTEES JANUARY 9, 1901. 
To the Board of Trustees of the Missouri Botanical Garden: 
The financial results for the year ending December 31, 
1900, herewith presented, are not entirely satisfactory, in 
that the receipts from rentals show a considerable falling 
off from those of the preceding year and are much less than 
we anticipated. 
This decrease is easily explained and is attributable 
almost entirely to the vacancy of one of the largest and 
most valuable pieces of our business properties, the result 
of the failure of the tenant in January last, and a 
vacancy since March Ist, causing a loss in rentals for 
the year of about $7,000.00; but we hope with improved 
business conditions, to find a satisfactory tenant during the 
spring. 
With the above exception we are glad to report fewer 
vacancies than at any time during the past few years, and 
a slight improvement in rental values. 
There seems to be no demand for high class residence 
property in the district near the Garden and none of 
the property offered for sale by the Board has been 
disposed of. 
The extension of the Garden by the addition of about 20 
acres, mentioned in our last report, has been made, and the 
tract has been graded, partially planted with trees and 
shrubs, and sown to grass, at a cost of $12,317.59, 
and the plant house system has been still further extended 
by the erection of a plant house similar to the one erected 
a few years ago, at a cost of $5,110.90. 
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