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MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 



or 15 per cent, of the visitors noted above, came in the even- 

 ing. It is safe to say that very few of these evening visitors 

 could have seen the chrysanthemums at all if the lighting 

 of the tent had not made possible its opening to them at 

 night. 



Plant and seed accessions for the year, aside from Garden 

 propagations and collections, number 291, comprising 17,123 

 plants or packets of seeds. Of these, 8,568, representing 

 214 of the accession entries and valued at $511.20, were pre- 

 sented or received in exchange for similar material or for Gar- 

 den publications; and 6,324, representing 52 entries, were 

 purchased, the Secretary's books showing an expenditure 

 of S898.31 for such purchases, including transportation and 

 other charges. The Garden collections, exclusive of seeds 

 for exchange purposes, number 1,774 plants, valued at 

 $150.47, and 457 jmckages of seeds, valued at $24.35. Gar- 

 den propagations amounted to 27,702 plants, valued at 

 $1,939.14. 



The^ exchange list issued by the Garden in December, 

 1905, included 1,382 species or varieties, and correspondents 

 have been given 4,935 packets of seeds, valued at $248.20, 

 selected from this list; also 984 plants, valued at $147.50. 

 Surplus plants, including some of those removed from the 

 ground on the approach of winter, have been distributed 

 to charities and the public schools. At the close of the chrys- 

 anthemum show the plants not needed by the Garden were 

 likewise given to charities, together with a large number of 

 cut flowers. The number of plants so distributed through 

 the year amounts to 846. 



The records show that 1,587 species or varieties were 

 added to the collection of living plants during the year, 

 while 491 were lost or discarded, leaving a net gain of 1,096; 

 the total at the end of the year being 17,072, in contrast 

 with the 15,976 noted for the preceding year.* The larger 

 part of the increase falls in the hardy herbaceous and succu- 

 lent departments. 



* Rept. Mo. Bot. Gard. 17 : 29. 



