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12 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 



arboretum, and the impossibility of replacing those that 

 had died, or of entirely renewing the hedges without 



stood 



grown 



Board, in 1892, that the labyrinth should be taken out. 

 In the early part of 1893, therefore, the labyrinth was 



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emoved, a portion of the gi 

 to blue grass, and the remainder was covered by a piece 

 of natural rock work, constructed of the porous limestone 

 of the Meramec river. Through the open season, this 

 rockery is occupied by the large collection of cacti and 

 agaves, forming a naturally arranged Mexican garden. A 

 small rockery for the growth of alpines has also been 

 formed under one of the shelter houses by the Linnean 

 House, and a sinuous lily pond has been made about 

 the old summer house at the extreme western part of the 

 arboretum. The wild garden in the southern part of the 

 arboretum has been maintained 



year, though an effort is being made to confine the small 

 beds in it to one, or at most a few, species each. 



During the year some 1,490 packets of seed have been 

 received by exchange or donation from other institutions, 

 including 200 bulbs from the Cape of Good Hope, and 

 about 2,220 packets have been distributed. Several fine 

 plants have been obtained by purchase, notably a lar^e 

 specimen of Encephalartos horrida, an old Cycas revoluta, 

 and a fine tree of Dicksonia Charaissoa, one of the ferns. 

 Donations of specimen plants have been made to the 

 Garden by the Michel Plant and Bulb Companv, Mr. D. S. 



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Mr. Fred Kanst 



Park, Chicago. The Garden also has the promise of a 

 large number of plants which were used about the French 

 building and elsewhere on the Exposition grounds in 

 Chicago, which we expect to receive early in the sprint. 

 The plants loaned by the Garden for the Missouri exhibit 

 in Chicago have been largely donated to the University of 



Missouri and the Chicago narks, bv diTw>tinn nf fh« HmWI 



