14 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 
Acacia-like plants have been planted out in a natural man- 
ner, and it is expected that far better specimen plants 
representing these groups will thus be grown than has been 
possible while they were cultivated in pots and tubs. The 
quadrangle inclosed by this range of houses and the old 
main greenhouse with its Agave wing, now devoted to tem- 
porary potting and other work sheds, frames, and propa- 
gating houses, will, it is hoped, be renovated in the course 
of the next year or two, the old flue-heated propagating 
houses being then removed and replaced by a system of 
houses of modern plan and construction, heated by hot 
water from the boilers which now heat the new range and 
the Victoria pond. 
The records of the Gate-keeper show that in 1900, 
42,483 persons visited the Garden on week-days, 6,911 on 
the open Sunday in June, and 14,488 on the open Sunday 
in September, — making a total of 63,882 for the year. 
Though considerably smaller than the number for the pre- 
vious year (71,021), this total is unexpectedly large when it 
is recalled that for eight weeks following May 8th, in the 
most attractive season of the year, the entire city was 
almost paralyzed by a car strike which, though it did not 
stop the car service, effectually prevented the use of the 
cars on many lines except when such use was imperatively 
necessary, while, for the two months following, a nominal 
continuation of the strike greatly interfered with the use of 
the cars. 
The practice of securing the more important current 
collections for the herbarium has been continued through 
the year just ended, and a number of special collections 
of considerable size have been purchased or secured by 
exchange. The material incorporated in the herbarium 
during the year comprises 8,415 sheets of specimens, of 
which 3,649 were bought, 11 pertain to the Redfield col- 
lection, 3,002, appraised at $150.10, were presented or 
obtained in exchange for duplicates or for the publications 
