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of plants that could not otherwise have been cultivated. 
Granitoid ponds, steps, etc., needed for the replacement of 
decaying old wooden structures, or tofurnish opportunities 
for growing such plants as the Amazon lily, have cost 
$1,931.26. 
At the Director’s residence the temporarily built, un- 
sanitary and discordant east wing was replaced in 1890 
by a conveniently planned wing, at a cost of $19,000.00. 
A -water supply, including necessary piping along Tower 
Grove Avenue, supplemented by a provisional sewerage 
system, necessitated the expenditure of $4,589.10. 
In compliance with an express direction of Mr. Shaw’s 
will for the provision of a cottage to be occupied by @ 
person charged with caring for the mausoleum and its sur- 
roundings, a neat building has been erected which also 
serves as a gate-house for the private gate at Cleveland 
Avenue by which the Director’s residence is reached from 
the street. The cost of this improvement was $4,538.05. 
Under another provision of Mr. Shaw’s will, requiring 
its ultimate reconstruction on Tower Grove Avenue in some 
convenient situation in contiguity to the Garden, his 
former city residence was removed in 1892 from the cor- 
ner of Seventh and Locust Streets and rebuilt, mainly in 
fire-proof construction, in the Garden, on Tower Grove 
Avenue between Shenandoah and Botanical Avenues, the 
large expenditure of $33,478.89 for this purpose being 
made by direction of the court. In connection with the 
renovation of the residence and the removal of this build- 
ing, which for the time afforded adequate room for the 
office, library and herbarium, a boiler pit was provided at 
a safe distance, from which steam heat is supplied to the 
office, residence, and museum buildings ; $1,204.07 having 
been spent for this purpose in addition to subsequent 
improvement charges. 
Among the provisions in Mr. Shaw’s will, explained in 
some detail in certain manuscript suggestions not made a 
