THIRD ANNUAL REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR, FOR 1891. 
SUBMITTED TO THE TRUSTEES JAN. 13, 1892. 
To the Board of Trustees of the Missouri Botanical Garden: 
In compliance with the rules of the Board, I respectfully 
submit the following report on the Missouri Botanical 
Garden and the Henry Shaw School of Botany. 
THE BOTANICAL GARDEN. 
During the past season no effort has been spared to 
maintain and augment the ornamental features of the 
Garden, so far as the funds at the disposal of the Board 
permitted, and to make it both pleasing and instructive to 
the public. The number of visitors during the year, so 
far as can be estimated in the absence of automatic registers, 
has been somewhat greater than in 1890, and on the open 
Sundays, in June and September, very large numbers of 
people visited the grounds. With few exceptions visitors 
have been orderly, and little damage has been done to 
property. 
Throughout the year about fifty men have been employed 
on the grounds, at an aggregate expense of something over 
$20,000.00 for the year. Besides the necessary work of 
maintenance, many repairs and improvements have been 
made. ‘These have been reported in detail in my monthly 
reports. By way of summary it may be said here that 
they have included excavating and remaking in a sub- 
stantial manner some 5,100 running feet of walks; laying 
about 3,200 feet of drain and sewer pipe, and making the 
necessary surface connections and silt pits; resetting 3,380 
feet of brick edging; grading and laying sod on about 
13,000 square feet of ground, and grading and seeding 
about 30,000 square feet of lawn; removing the unsightly 
shed and broken fences from the rear and sides of the 
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