MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BULLETIN 57 
perfectly level grade, except for the slight crown in the 
walks. 
A garden, whether natural, formal, or Japanese, is never 
truly finished. If proper maintenance is given and the true 
intent of the design followed, time will greatly add to its 
charm, so that each succeeding year should bring these two 
new gardens nearer to the ideals of perfection and beauty 
which they are ultimately intended to exemplify. 
NOTES 
_ Professor H. M. Kelley of Cornell College, Iowa, visited 
the Garden on April 10. 
Classes from the Cote Brilliante School visited the Garden 
on March 24, 25, 30, and 81. 
A class in school gardens from the Teachers’ College, con- 
ducted by Mr. H. C. Irish, visited the Garden on April 21. 
On April 10, pupils of the Ritenaur School, Overland 
Park, St. Louis County, conducted by Miss Hortense Reith, 
visited the Garden. 
Dr. B. M. Duggar, Physiologist to the Garden, gave a talk 
on “Mushroom Growing,” at the meeting of the Garden 
Students’ Club, on April 16. 
Dr. E. J. Durand, of Missouri University, recently spent 
a day or two at the Garden consulting the herbarium and 
the collection of exsiccati. 
Dr. George T. Moore, Director of the Garden, spoke be- 
fore the St. Louis Y. M. C. A., Central Branch, February 26, 
on “Agriculture as a Life Work.” 
Professor B. L. Robinson, Professor of Systematic Botany 
and Curator of the ree Herbarium, of Harvard University, 
visited the Garden on April 26 and 27. 
A collection of fancy Japanese fan-tail one presented 
to the Garden by Mr. C. B. Nicholson of Clifton Heights, 
is temporarily shown in the nepenthes pond. 
On March 22, Dr. George T. Moore spoke before the Rail- 
road Branch Y. M. C. A. on “The Missouri Botanical Garden 
and its Service to the City.” 
At the March meeting of the Missouri Botanical Garden 
Students’ Club, the following officers were elected: Presi- 
dent, C. F. Geibel; Vice-President, P. A. Pfaender; Secre- 
tary and Treasurer, P. A. Kohl. 
