TWENTY-FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT 
OF THE DIRECTOR 
SUBMITTED TO THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE MISSOURI 
BOTANICAL GARDEN, JANUARY 14, 1914 
Gentlemen: 
I have the honor to submit herewith the Twenty-fifth 
Annual Report of the Director. 
The year 1913 has been an eventful one for the Missouri 
Botanical Garden. Perhaps never before in its history have 
so many important projects been inaugurated or completed 
within twelve months. While the new range of greenhouses 
naturally comes first to mind, a large number of other im- 
provements and additions, some of which are of even greater 
significance than the new conservatories, combine to make 
~ year such a one as will be difficult to duplicate in the 
uture. 
The publication of a monthly bulletin; a start towards a 
change in plan of the main garden, harmonizing it with 
the new greenhouses; the erection of a new residence for the 
Director; the completion of the stone wall and fence along 
Tower Grove Avenue, as well as the construction of a per- 
manent iron fence along Magnolia and Alfred Avenues; 
the inauguration of monthly floral displays; the changes in 
the old greenhouses which have made possible the more suc- 
cessful growing of orchids, pitcher plants, etc. ; the beginning 
of a thorough and comprehensive botanical survey of the 
Southwest; the addition to the staff of Dr. J. M. Green- 
man as Curator of the Herbarium, and Dr. E. A. Burt as 
Mycologist and Librarian, as well as the gratifying number 
of graduate students from all parts of the country, indicat- 
ing the increasing recognition of the unexcelled facilities to 
be found at the Garden, are a few of the year’s events which 
are calculated to make the Missouri Botanical Garden better 
known and of greater service to the public and the scien- 
tific world at large. A significant fact in this connection is 
the appreciation of some of these changes by the citizens 
of St. Louis and the out-of-town visitors, as evidenced by the 
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