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position of guide and leader. It is true that mistakes and de- 
ficiencies have developed in abundance, but taken as a whole, 
the onward strides and successes give ample cause for a 
measure of satisfaction and a feeling of having used well one’s 
inherent talents. With the passing of years I appreciate more 
deeply the solidity, breadth, thoroughness, and practical ap- 
plication of the Garden course given so distinctively at the 
Missouri Botanical Garden as compared with that of agricul- 
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tural colleges, and I take this opportunity of acknowledging 
that to the solid and thorough foundation secured at the Gar- 
den is due what measure of success I have attained. I am im- 
pelled to add the hope that casual culture will never dictate 
the curricula at the expense of the highly specialized, purely 
scientific teaching so admirably intermixed with a good pro- 
portion of well selected practice. 
In 1900 Portland had a population of 90,000; to-day it has 
nearly 300,000. The rapid transition from swaddling clothes 
to habiliments of maturity caused awkwardness, growing 
pains, and paradoxes, and the parks shared the effects of the 
encircling atmosphere. My position, officially, at the outset 
was purely executive, but it gradually partook of the J apd 
sional, advisory duties. As an executive it was my duty to 
