TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR. 
SUBMITTED TO THE TRUSTEES JANUARY 9, 1901. 
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 sub- 
mitted in compliance with your rules. 
THE BOTANICAL GARDEN. 
In its essential features, the Garden has been maintained 
through the past year on about the same lines as for some 
years preceding, the principal differences in treatment being 
close to the main entrance, where, instead of the rather 
numerous small beds that have usually been devoted first to 
bulbs and later to cacti, ete., a heavy mass of Crotons was 
this year disposed on either side of the walk leading in 
from the main gate, these being replaced in autumn by 
bulbs for early spring flowering. 
Though the revenue of the Board has not yet been in- 
creased through sales of real estate ultimately made pos- 
sible by the Court decree noted in my last report,* the 
power to make such sales when necessary and desirable, 
now makes it possible to spend on the Garden the entire 
current revenue, as intended by its founder, and as a 
result the extensions which have been contemplated for 
some years past have now been begun, essentially on the 
lines indicated at length in my eighth report.f 
The improvements made this year consist in the grading 
of some twenty acres of land lying on Alfred, Magnolia 
and Tower Grove avenues, and in planting the blocking- 
out border about this tract, on plans prepared some years 
* Report. 113 13. + Report. $337. 
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