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14 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 
gain for the year is 594, bringing the total to 12,668, as 
compared with the 12,074 grown in 1910.1 
DISTRIBUTION OF PLANTS AND SEEDS. 
The exchange seed list of 1910 numbered 2,673 species 
and varieties. From it correspondents of the Garden have 
selected 9,884 packets of seeds, valued at $494.20; and 1,272 
living plants, valued at $123.40, have been sent to exchang- 
ing institutions,—the exchange return, as indicated in the 
table, being 8,636 plants or seed packets, valued at $459.55. 
Surplus plants to the number of 1,425, estimated at 
$133.75, have been given to schools and colleges for educa- 
tional use; 1,592 surplus plants were given to charities. 
THE WEATHER. 
Few seasons have been as trying to gardeners as the one 
just closed. Temperature and precipitation fluctuated far 
DIAGRAM A. 
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26°F a 
Low 
oF. 
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' TEMPERATURE AND HUMIDITY, 1911. 
1 Rept. Mo. Bot. Gard. 23 : 16. 
