MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BULLETIN 3 
ber of trees and shrubs were removed from the nursery and 
used at various points, particularly along the edge of the 
pasture to serve as a screen back of the pergola, and also 
along the edge of the Garden bordering on Shaw Avenue. 
Considerable additions have been made to the collections of 
iris and hardy azaleas, and other attractive plants have been 
added in large quantity. . 
The permanent trellis around the economic garden was 
planted with a collection of about 100 varieties of vines, in 
order that the visitor might see good examples of these plants 
hardy for this vicinity, which were adapted for special pur- 
poses. 
In addition to the ordinary care of the grounds some prog- 
ress has been made in filling and grading various points 
where most needed. The north end of the economic garden 
is now completed, and the a bpog of walks extending from 
this point back of the pergola to the north range of green- 
houses is now in process of construction. 7 
EFFECT OF THE WAR 
Aside from advancing wages, increase in of material, 
and difficulty in obtaining labor and supplies, the most se- 
rious effect of the war on the Garden was the order issued 
last April by the Fuel Administrator, restricting all florists 
to fifty per cent of the amount of fuel used the previous 
ear. This was interpreted as applying to institutions like 
the Garden, analfwhile a special permit was granted which 
allowed us to obtain the fuel necessary to preserve our per- 
manent collections, it was only upon the condition that we 
save coal in every way possible and that no annuals or ad- 
ditional perennials be grown in the eenhouses. Accord- 
ingly, it was planned to close for the winter all of the 
growing and propagating houses back of the wall, thus elim- 
inating the winter flower shows in the floral display house, as 
well as the propagation of thousands of bedding plants which 
would have been used for outdoor planting next spring\ Al- 
though the restrictions im by the Fuel Administrator 
were removed late in the fall, it was then entirely too late 
for the large number of seedlings and cuttings to be obtained, 
and certainly for the first eight or ten months of the year 
1919 the Garden cannot be as attractive from the standpoint 
of blooming material as it has been in previous years. 
WAR ACTIVITIES 
As soon as the United States came into the war. the Trus- 
tees tendered all of the facilities of the Garden to the Govern- 
