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8 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 
sewers, gas and water service, trees, shubbery, etc. The 
work is now under way, being done by private contract, 
and when completed in the spring this will be the finest resi- 
dence street in the city, and practically the Grand avenue 
entrance to the Garden. These improvements will cost 
the Board about fifty thousand dollars for its share of the 
property running the full distance on the north side, which 
will be paid for out of the surplus accumulations of several 
years; and should the Board be empowered to sell, this 
property will be the first to be offered. 
The opportunity was offered the Board last spring of 
purchasing a triangular piece of ground of about 24 acres 
adjoining and southwest of the Garden property, admit- 
ting of an extension of the Garden along Magnolia avenue on 
the south to Alfred avenue on the west. The acquisition 
of this property was recommended by the Messrs. F. L. 
and J. C. Olmsted, the landscape architects who have 
charge of the proposed addition to the Garden, and it was 
secured at a cost of ten thousand dollars, a reasonable 
price considering its desirability. 
Large and valuable additions have been made to the 
Library and Herbarium, both by purchase and donation, 
and the following sums have been credited to the stock 
account as a permanent investment, which now aggregates 
$1,547,497.24:— 
Books, purchased and donated........sscocccscscccccecvcuce $7,188 79 
Herbarium ‘ es wesc oc abeawpeeet suseveevenepens 2,980 10 
BMG TOURS, 000s cece cibdee vs ceed ehORbeR iis oe Ore 7,496 93 
$17,665 82 
Mr. Shaw’s bequests for banquets, sermon, premiums for 
flower show and Shaw School of Botany have all been 
carried out as provided for in his will, and after caring for 
the Garden in a liberal manner, keeping properties of the 
Board in good repair and fully insured, and the payment 
of taxes, all out of the revenue of the year, we are enabled 
to carry forward as a surplus for the year, $2,252.26. 
