y MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BULLETIN 
Our sales of vacant residence property during the year are 
as follows: 
Lafayette Avenue Addition . 2,147 feet . . . $82,668 08 
Flora Boulevard Addition ; S10 feet 2 ss 15,160 00 
We recently purchased from the Board of Education for 
$12,000 a triangular piece of ground, containing three- 
fourths of an acre, fronting 162 feet on Kingshighway and 60 
feet on Vandeventer Avenue, upon which is located the old 
Shaw School building—now unfit for use as a school. This 
was done in order to ultimately make possible the extension 
of the Garden tract to Kingshighway and to prevent, in the 
meantime, the erection of undesirable structures. The 
ground was sold to the School Board by Mr. Shaw in 1858 
for the sum of $609.42. 
Expenditures for streets and sewers have been very heavy, 
as is shown by the following payments made during the 
year: 
City Block No, 4940 . . Alley .~ ate $ 1,326 47 
Shaw Avenue . . .  . Streetandsidewalk.  . 20,316 02 
McRee Avenue . ‘< A . Sidewalk . : ; : 1,640 10 
Arsenal Street. . = : . Sidewalk . : : , 945 28 
RAMU. oo A Se So ; 2,049 18 
‘ Sewers . : ‘ Gipc Bo a ee oe ge we ee 37,778 04 
$64,055 09 
Large sums have been expended upon the Garden for its 
care and for special and unusual permanent improvements, 
as will be seen by the statement of exenditures for garden im- 
provements, amounting in all to $100,059.84—the rincipal 
item being the new plant house recently completed, costing 
$152,147.01, of which sum $97,436.00 was paid in 1912, and 
$54,710.56 in 1913. 
_ Additions to the Library and Herbarium by purchase and 
gift during the year have amounted to the following sums: 
Library . ‘ a ee ee ee eee eros 
Herbarium . i 3 ; 4,029 60 
Two of the annual bequests provided for in Mr. Shaw’s will 
have been carried out in full—the Annual Flower Sermon 
and the Gardeners’ Banquet. As no flower show was held in 
St. Louis, $300.00 was offered as premiums at the Interna- 
tional Flower Show held in New York last spring. 
We have charged the Missouri Botanical Garden and cred- 
ited to Property Account the following expenditures for per. 
manent improvements: j 
