52 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BULLETIN 
The garden was designed to conform with, and utilize to 
the best advantage, the main features already existing, of 
which the Linnean House and the high walls are the most 
interesting and noteworthy. The general effect will be 
similar to that of the so-called “English” type of formal 
gardens, particularly those enclosed by a wall. The garden 
really comprises three smaller gardens, the west one, the 
“Perennial Garden,” the east one, the “Annual Garden,” 
and the middle one, “The Pools,” the latter directly south 
of the Linnean House. In detailed design these smaller 
gardens all differ materially from one another. The final 
intention is to devote the Perennial Garden entirely to 
perennials and the Annual Garden exclusively to plants of 
annual habit, and it is hoped that these gardens may 
ultimately contain a large proportion of the plants of their 
respective classes which will endure the local climatic con- 
ditions. Certain unusual plants, requiring special condi- 
tions such as rock garden, subtropical, etc., plants will be 
omitted. For the present, however, perennials will dominate 
both the Perennial and the Annual Gardens. The rigid 
formal lines of the walks, the walls, and building will be 
very much softened by the informality of these various 
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The middle garden will be occupied principally by brick- 
walled pools with limestone coping, devoted to tropical water- 
plants, principally Victoria and Euralia. The pools will be 
Sarees with steam pipes for heating the water during cool 
weather. Tropical, sub-tropical, and flowering plants of 
brilliant hues will occupy the beds around the pools. The 
middle garden will therefore present an effect totally dif- 
ferent from that of the gardens on either side. 
The main east and west walk leads to two trellised summer- 
houses. Various vines will hide their framework, making 
the benches inside a cool and inviting retreat in summer. 
Where the main cross walks reach the wall lion-head foun- 
tains, arched over with vines, empty into a basin below. 
Seats and flower boxes are placed along the minor walks, 
and a gazing globe will be an interesting feature of the 
Annual Garden. Vines of wisteria, clematis, akebia, tecoma, 
etc., covering the trellised summer-houses, latticed walls, 
and Linnean House will make this spot picturesque and 
attractive. The following plants, numbered to correspond 
to their position on the plan, have been planted for this first 
season in the Perennial and Annual Gardens. 
