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acres of Bronx Park, and the Board of Estimate and Apportion- 

 ment was directed to' issue bonds amounting to five hundred 

 thousand dollars, to be used in the construction of the necessary- 

 buildings, greenhouses, museums, laboratories, etc. 



View of Main Greenhouse in the Missouri Botanic Garden, with Flowering Specimens 

 OF Agave Mexicana in Foreground. Reproduced by permissiou from the Fifth Annual 

 Eeport of the Missouri Botanical Garden, 1894:. 



