﻿EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR. 



SUBMITTED TO THE TRUSTEES JANUARY 9, 1907. 



To the Board of Trustees of the Missouri Botanical Garden: 



The following report on the Missouri Botanical Garden 

 and the School of Botany connected therewith is respect- 

 fully submitted in compliance with the rules of the Board. 



GARDENING. 



In its general features, the decorative gardening of the 

 past year was a repetition of that of several preceding seasons. 

 Tulips occupied the parterre in the spring, and choice foliage 

 plants during the rest of the open season, a large bed being 

 devoted to each named variety, planted in mass. Rather 

 more roses than usual were grown, and a rearrangement of 

 the synoptical rose beds fronting the Linnean House greatly 

 increased their beauty. The planting of the lily ponds was 

 also done more effectively than usual, and the larger pond, 

 in which the two species of Victoria were grown side by side, 

 has rarely been as attractive as during the season just 

 closed. 



The synopsis of about 1,400 North American plants, fol- 

 lowing the Bentham and Hooker sequence of families, and 

 planted in an open park arrangement,* was this year thrown 

 open to the public and has attracted much attention. As 

 its trees increase in size, this tract of some twenty acres is 

 destined to become one of the most beautiful parts of the 

 Garden, as it already is one of the most interesting to bo- 

 tanical visitors. Ultimately, an entrance-way opposite the 

 gate of Tower Grove Park is planned, which will admit 



* Rept. Mo. Bot. Gard. 8 : 3S. 17 : IG. 



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