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DIRECTOR 



SUBMITTED 



Missouri 



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The following report on the Missouri Botanical Garden 

 and the School of Botany connected therewith is respectfully 

 submitted in compliance with the rules of the Board 



GARDENING. 



devoted to decorative plantins; bein 



:cd 



number 



same 



from year to year. The parterre was agam 

 used in the early spring of 1907 for tuHps, of which, here and 

 elsewhere, 21,500 plants, representing nearly 200 varieties, 



an increase of 2,500 over the previous year. 



grown 



summer, the same ground 



and hybrid pelargoniums, of w 

 in contrasted masses, which 



;ated 3.500 plants. As 



manner by a much 



pplemented 



number 



named 



but represented by a smaller 

 'goniums so grown numbering 

 cies or varieties. The other 



tures of the Garden have been maintained 

 immediately preceding years, but by the 



different plants. 



most marked change was in the beds 



flanking the entrance walk and surrounding the parterre, 



where a simple fleur-de-lis design \ 

 antheray Peristrophey and Santolina 



The total number 

 aside from tulips, t 



37,500. 



Chrysanthemums were again grown in quantity, and 

 rough the fortnight beginning with November 4th, 4,000 

 .oice plants, representing 400 varieties, were displayed under 



nvas in the parterre. As was the case last year, I desire 



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