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30 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 
Mary C. McCulloch, Supervisor of Kindergartens in the 
public schools of the city. About 300 surplus plants have 
also been given to High Schools and Normal Schools, to be 
used for purposes of instruction. 
As in the preceding year, the summer of 1905 was 
cool. The average mean daily temperature for the en- 
tire year was 1.2° F. below the normal. The months 
of January and February were much colder than usual, 
necessitating a considerable increase in the expense of 
maintaining the plant houses. The entire month of 
March, on the other hand, was unusually warm, so that 
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MEAN TEMPERATURES. 
operations usually performed in April were found to be 
necessary in March, thus increasing the length of the 
open season by about a month. The precipitation for the 
year has amounted to 38.54 inches, in contrast with the 
average of 37.14 inches given by the sheets issued by the 
local Weather Bureau office, — from which the accompany- 
ing diagrams A and B have been compiled. In the early 
spring, in June and in all the cold months the precipitation 
was considerably below the average; but in May, July and 
August the average was a little exceeded and the Septem- 
ber and October rainfall was very high. Through most of 
the growing season it was rather uniformly distributed, 
