14 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 



the two comprising 32 of the 326 entries foi 



24,748, representing 204 entries and valued at - ._ 1 _ w ..„„ l 



were presented or received in exchange for material or 



the Garden; and 8,998, representing 90 



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from 



$2 



Among the unusually large gifts were 6,970 cacti, or- 

 chids, etc., appraised at $2,564.20, presented by the Mex- 

 ican National Exposition Commission, which added 85 

 species or varieties not before represented at the Garden ; 

 4,810 fiber-yielding plants and young forest trees, ap- 

 praised at $511.50, presented by the United States Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture; 161 tropical plants, appraised at 

 $196.50 and of which 35 species were new to the collec- 

 tions, presented by the Cuban Commission; 38 plants 

 appraised at $39.25, of which 3 were new to the Garden,' 

 presented by the Chinese Commission; and 17 plants, ap- 

 praised at $20.00 and adding 10 new species to the collec- 

 tions, presented by the Brazilian Commission. To these 

 donors, as well as the Philippine Commission, the Japanese 

 Commission, the California!! Commission, and other foreign 

 and states Commissions and private exhibitors from whom 

 smaller but valuable gifts were received, the Garden is 

 under great indebtedness. Opportunity has also been 

 found at the Exposition to purchase a considerable number 

 of choice plants sent to St. Louis for exhibition,— among 

 them a well-grown Japanese Wistaria, some 50 of the besl 

 Japanese tree paeonies, and a pair of enormous and very 

 old plants of Cycas revoluta, said to have been in cultiva- 

 tion in this country for about 300 years. 



The records show that from all sources 3,050 species 

 and varieties, not represented at its beginning, were added 



' the year, while 200 were 



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year of 2,850 and bringing the total up to 14,207, in con- 

 trast with the 11,357 noted for 1903.* 



Kept. Mo. Bot. Gard. 15: 17. 



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