FOURTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR. 
SUBMITTED TO THE TRUSTEES JANUARY 14, 1903. 
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, therewith connected, 
is respectfully submitted in compliance with the rules of 
the Board. 
THE BOTANICAL GARDEN. 
The general maintenance of the Garden during 1902 has 
not differed in essentials from what has been.reported for 
preceding years. Perhaps the most marked change was at 
the main entrance, where the provision of climbers on the 
inner face of the gate house and the growth of a heavy 
mass of Acalypha tricolor flanking the entrance walk 
produced an impression quite different from that effected 
by the use of succulents about the gate house for a number 
of years. 
In contrast with the preceding summer, that of 1902 was 
relatively cool and moist, so that although some of the 
plants set in the autumn and a number of the trees en- 
feebled by the drought and heat of 1901 died, the general 
operations of gardening were satisfactorily and effectively 
carried on. 
The apportionment of labor in the different departments 
of gardening is clearly shown on the accompanying diagram 
(A), compiled from a tabulation which is made at the end 
of each month from the daily reports of the gardeners. 
The care of the decorative collections sheltered in green- 
houses requires almost one-half of the entire labor annually 
expended on gardening, the flower beds and ponds — which 
receive little attention in winter — requiring not far from 
one-sixth of the total, lawns and horticulture — the latter 
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