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‘30 -. MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 
The training of the majority of applicants for informa- 
tion concerning the scholarships is very defective, many of 
them evidently having enjoyed few educational opportuni- 
ties, and wishing scholarships for the manual training they 
offer, or regarding them merely as opportunities for em- 
ployment. But the young men who have received scholar- 
ships appear to be accomplishing all that could reasonably 
be expected from the work of the first year. To provide 
accommodations for them, the building situated opposite 
the north gate of Tower Grove Park, and formerly known 
as the Casino, has been renovated and provided with city 
water, and plainly but neatly and comfortably furnished as 
a lodge. At present it is under the care of one of the 
Garden Assistants. 
Early in April, Mr. J. C. Duffey, of ‘the Experiment 
Station of South Dakota, was appointed Assistant in Hor- 
ticulture, and has performed much useful work in bringing 
the younger and more manageable of the neglected fruit 
trees of the Garden into proper shape, and in experiment- 
ing with and practically applying insecticides and fungi- 
cides, and otherwise dealing with orchard and garden pests. 
As illustrating the difference between care and neglect in 
orchard and vineyard work, three photographs are here re- 
‘produced; two of them showing an apple tree as Mr. 
‘Duffey found it and after it had been pruned, and the 
other representing a few average clusters of bagged and 
unbagged Delaware grapes as they appeared at the season 
for gathering the fruit. It may be added that not a single 
unbagged cluster of any but the most worthless varieties of 
grapes reached maturity in better condition than the un- 
bagged Deiawares shown, owing to the attacks of fungi, 
‘insects, and birds, chiefly the last two. Mr. Duffey has 
-also made some interesting observations on the habits and 
life-history of two beneficial insects, which he has recently 
published in the Transactions of the Academy of Science. 
During the winter, he has been granted leave of absence 
