MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BULLETIN 5 
prepared by the Garden. Garden tools were also loaned for 
this purpose, and many were glad to avail themselves of this 
assistance, who otherwise would have been unable to have 
had a vegetable garden. Unusual quantities of corn, oats, 
millet, alfalfa, soy beans, cow-peas, and cane were grown 
during the summer. Over 500 bushels of corn were har- 
vested and sufficient hay to more than supply our stock for 
the coming year. A new roof was built on the walls of the 
old hay barn to provide storage room for the large crop. 
The floral displays have been maintained throughout the 
year in their usual excellence. These shows continue to 
attract more and more attention from local commercial 
growers and florists, since the Garden is able to show 
many novelties before they are on the open market. March 
15-18 the St. Louis Florists’ Club held a flower show in the 
Coliseum, which was the most successful thing of its kind 
attempted in St. Louis in several years, The Shaw medal 
was offered by the Garden as well as $500 dollars in pre- 
miums. Nineteen first prizes were obtained by the Garden 
in addition to the silver medal offered by the Society of 
American Florists and Ornamental Horticulturists. 
The use of the Garden has been offered to the Government 
in whatever capacity seems most fit, together with the equip- 
ment of the laboratories, sterilizing apparatus, etc. The 
Garden has also been of considerable assistance to the Mis- 
souri Library Commission, in the collection of books and 
magazines to be forwarded to the army cantonments. In- 
formation furnished by the Garden to meet the demand 
arising through the shortage of certain drugs, fibers, dyes, 
- ete., due to the war, has even exceeded the amount given out 
in 1916. 
ATTENDANCE FOR THE YEAR 1917 
Week-days Sundays 
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143,598 135,856 
143,598 
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