TWENTY-SECOND ANNUAL REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR. 
SUBMITTED TO THE TRUSTEES JANUARY 11, 1911. 
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 respect- 
fully submitted, in compliance with your rules. 
GARDENING. 
No considerable changes in the ground allotted to decora- 
tive plants are to be reported, though rearrangements of 
detail and selection of varieties have enabled the gardeners 
to secure a rather more attractive general effect and a decid- 
edly better persistence of color masses through the season. 
As has been the practice for some years past, the sunken 
garden was occupied by early-flowering tulips, flanked this 
year by the later Darwin and parrot types; and in this dis- 
play some 28,800 bulbs, representing 222 varieties, were used. 
During the summer and early fall, the same ground was 
occupied by choice bedding-plants. Among the forms util- 
ized this season Alternanthera (5,000), Sedum (4,000), 
Echeveria (4,000), Pelargonium (3,000), Coleus (2,500), 
Celosia (1,800), Peristrophe (1,800), Gladiolus (1,500), 
Antirrhinum (1,500), Canna (1,200), Sweet Alyssum 
(1,200), Salvia (1,000), Ageratum (1,000), Pansies (1,000), 
etc., figured prominently. For this and similar purposes 
38,000 plants were used,—about 5,000 more than in 1909. 
Through the fortnight beginning with November 14th, the 
parterre was occupied by a tented display of 2,250 chrysan- 
themums, representing 502 varieties, which in perfection of 
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