4 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BULLETIN 
summer improved a tract adjoining it on the west containing 
about 11,860 front feet, of which we have already sold 2,633 
front feet for $90,117.11. 
During the year our sales of vacant ground were as fol- 
lows: 
Lafayette Avenue Addition No.1 . . 2,382 feet . $85,433 97 
Lafayette Avenue Addition No, 2 . saben feeb 90,117 11 
Flora Boulevard Addition : : : 170 feet. 11,090 00 
$186,641 08 . 
We have just let contracts for grading and to prepare for 
subdivision a tract to be known as Lafayette Avenue Addi- 
tion No. 3—lying just west of Tower Grove Avenue and 
north of the Garden and containing twenty acres, and an- 
other tract lying at the southeast corner of Arsenal Street 
and Kingshighway and just south of Tower Grove Park, con- 
taining twelve acres. Both of these tracts will be fully im- 
proved with streets and sewers as soon as it seems desirable. 
No extensive permanent improvements have been made 
at the Garden except the following: 
A reserve boiler for heating plant . . . . . , $3,767 90 
Pergola enclosing the area between the wings of the new plant 
house : : : : : : : : _ er 3,500 00 
Many’ other general improvements have been made at the 
Garden, but for particulars of these you are referred to the 
Director’s Annual Report. 
Additions to the Library and Herbarium collections by 
purchase and gift during the year are valued at the following 
sums: 
Library 2 ie ee 
Herbarium _.. ee Se : 6,464 05 
The annual bequests provided for in Mr. Shaw’s will have 
been carried out with the exception of prizes for the annual 
flower show, none being held. 
The Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the organization of the 
Board of Trustees of the Missouri Botanical Garden was cele- 
brated October 14 and 15 at the Garden, scientists thering 
for the occasion from Europe and from nearly all of t the edu- 
cational and scientific institutions of the United States and 
Canada. The celebration concluded with the Trustee’s An- 
nual Banquet. For full particulars you are referred to the 
Director’s Annual Report and the October, 1914, number of 
the BULLETIN. 
For an itemized account of the receipts and disbursements _ 
your attention is called to the following statement: 
