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SIXTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR. 



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GARDEN PUPILS. 



No changes have been made in the provision for instruc- 

 tion in theoretical and practical gardening; though the 

 small body of garden pupils has undergone a great change. 



In March last, C. W, Full 



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completed the prescribed work and passed the requisite 

 examinations, were granted the customary certificate of 

 proficiency. The two scholarships so vacated were filled, 

 on the result of competitive examinations, by the appoint- 

 ment of William A. Federer, of St. Louis, and Hubert M. 

 Jones, of Chicago. In April, Walter Gillies resigned the 

 scholarship which he had held for a year on the nomina- 

 tion of the St. Louis Florists' Club, and on the same nom- 

 ination it was assigned in May to Paul Roper. In October, 

 Hubert M. Jones, a bright and studious young man to 

 whom one of the scholarships had been awarded in the 

 spring, died at his home in Chicago, after an illness of 

 several months ; and Walter H. Hummel, who had held a 

 scholarship since April, 1903, resigned it, to undertake 

 college preparatory work. An announcement that these 

 vacant scholarships will be awarded in March next, on the 

 result of competitive examinations, was issued in December, 

 and distributed in the customarv manner. 



THE GARDEN STAFF 



The only changes to be reported in the office force are 

 the appointment of Dr. J 



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Miss Nellie L. H 

 Miss Ida Norton, i 

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Cataloguer, in June, to succeed 



of temporary assistants have been 



employed through most of the year in both library and 



herbarium. 







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