EIGHTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR. 37 
ance with a request of the Board, in November 1895 a 
general plan for extension and development was submitted 
by the Director, and the more essential parts of this report 
are here quoted, as forming a comprehensive statement of 
the main ends to be attained.* 
GENERAL PLANS FOR PLANTING. 
In providing for the future of the Garden, three principal objects 
must be kept in view: beauty, instructiveness, and adaptability to re- 
search. So far as development of the grounds and plant houses is con- 
cerned, it seems to me that future extensions and changes should be 
conducted on essentially the following lines, decided upon definitely in 
advance, and adhered to as closely in detail as ever-changing conditions 
may permit, so that each step that is taken is a part of a definite, care- 
fully considered general plan, while the inevitable mistakes can be easily 
detected and promptly rectified without resulting harm. 
For florists’ forms, including general transient decorative plants, the 
present garden, lying along Tower Grove Avenue, and bounded by the 
fruticetum, the arboretum, and the Director’s residence, seems to me to 
be amply sufficient. This portion of the grounds, which at present con- 
stitutes the most attractive part of the Garden, falls far short of what it 
can be made to be, but its improvement, which is being carried on, is of 
necessity only partial. To obtain the fullest results from this tract of 
ground would necessitate what I have no doubt will ultimately be done,— 
the clearing, to a very large extent, and suitable rearranging and re- 
planting of the entire tract. In this area, comprising some thirteen 
acres, I think that it will always be possible to cultivate in adequate 
quantity a sufficient variety of the most attractive decorative plants, 
many of which are tender and must consequently be propagated anew 
each year. This portion of the Garden, on which the greater part of the 
maintenance fund is now spent each year, must always, from this fact, 
continue to be the expensive portion of the Garden to maintain. To sup- 
plement the grounds, a much extended system of greenhouses must also 
ultimately be provided. A beginning has been made toward this by the 
erection in 1894 of a house facing the Victoria pond, this house consti- 
tuting the central portion of a proposed range extending from the pres- 
ent house into palm towers at the east and west, with houses of the 
general construction of the present one running south from these towers. 
Whenever the funds of the Board and the general status of the Garden 
shall warrant it, it will also prove not only desirable, but necessary, to 
*This report in full was part of the testimony in the suit of R. J. 
Lackland et al. vs. R. F. Walker, Attorney-General, et al., above men- 
tioned. See page 203 of the printed abstract of record in said cause 
in the Supreme Court of Missouri. 
