10 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BULLETIN 
for bulbs and plants which have to be held over. There has 
also been built a new shed for flower pots, which enables all 
the various sizes to be kept separate and an accurate account 
of the stock on hand or in use is now available. 
Large quantities of new shrubs and trees have been planted 
in the main garden and elsewhere which, within a few years, 
will become a prominent part of the improved planting 
scheme towards which we are working. 
The construction of the central heating plant necessitated 
a new road for the hauling of coal and, consequently, a 
roperly constructed service road from Shaw Avenue to the 
boiler house has been built. 
Not one of the least of the improvements during the year 
was the completion of the stone wall and fence along Tower 
Grove Avenue and Alfred Avenue. Aside from the improve- 
ment in appearance, this fence has been a very distinct factor 
in enabling us to control the depredations and misconduct 
of irresponsible parties who formerly were able to get into 
the North American Tract without difficulty. Perhaps no 
one thing has so contributed to the suppression of vandalism 
in the Garden as the construction of this fence. 
ATTENDANCE. 
The following diagram indicates more graphically than any 
list of figures, the increasing interest that the people of St. 
Louis and elsewhere are takin g in the Missouri Botanical 
Garden. While the opportunity to visit the Garden on Sun- 
day afternoon for about eight months of the year is, of 
course, responsible to some extent for the growing attendance, 
this is by no means the only factor involved. An analysis 
of the attendance of former years shows that from twenty 
to fifty per cent of the years’ visitors came on the two 
open Sundays; consequently, the Sunday attendance for the 
year 1913 is but little greater, proportionately, than that of 
previous years. Furthermore, the number of weekday visitors 
during the year alone equals the average attendance of pre- 
vious years when the en had an average of 30,000 visitors 
on the two open Sundays. Even before the completion of 
the new greenhouses, the provision of special floral displays 
and other attractions, together with increasing publicity, 
resulted in a decided response from the public; for example, 
the attendance in a February of this year— 
months during which the n is not open on Sunday— 
was three times that of the previous year, a fact due entirely, _ 
