TWENTY 



JANUARY 



To the Board of Trustees of the Missouri Botanical Garden: 



The following report on the Missouri Botanical Garden 

 and the School of Botany therewith connected is respectfully 

 submitted, in compliance with your rules. 



GARDENING. 



I 



Decorative gardening in 1909 followed essentially the 

 same lines as for several years past, the most observable 

 changes consisting in modification of the borders flanking 

 the entrance, in the substitution of foliage for flowering 

 plants in the sunken garden, and in the use of more than the 

 usual number of succulents in attractive and skillful mosaic 



designs. 



garden and 



has 



and 



tended 



ming "parrot 77 varieties. Aside from 



bed 



during 



Chrysanthemums were again grown in numbers, and 

 3,511 plants, of 520 varieties, were shown under canvas 

 through the fortnight beginning with November 15th. 

 Though the season had been less favorable than usual for 



specimen 



as in some 



made 



before been 



m pedigr 



much 



summer 



d 



primarily 



from 



collected at the Garden, number 326, and compr 



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