MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BULLETIN 33 
public. While it appears to restrict the area of the Garden, 
it is in reality a very distinct expansion—an expansion, how- 
ever, which makes it possible to beautify and improve the 
section in the city now open to visitors. 
By disposing of the area adjoining the improved portion 
of the Garden which is bounded on the north by Shenandoah 
Avenue, on the west by Kingshighway, on the southwest by 
Vandeventer Avenue, on the north by Shaw Avenue, and on 
the east by a line from where Alfred Avenue comes into Shaw 
Avenue to the intersection of Alfred and Shenandoah, enough 
money can be secured to make possible the development of 
the out-of-town annex. 
In order to make the disposal of this land legal and to 
have the permission of the court for the sale, application was 
made in the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis, and after 
two hearings at which the Attorney General of the state was 
represented, the court entered a decree permitting the sale 
of the tract and authorizing the Board of Trustees in their 
diseretion to purchase land sufficiently far from the adverse 
atmospheric conditions of the city to carry out successfully 
the trust established by Mr. Shaw. 
EXPEDITION TO THE TROPICS FOR ORCHIDS 
About the first of April the horticulturist to the Garden, 
Mr. G. H. Pring, will start for Panama and Colombia for 
the purpose of organizing an expedition into the mountain 
regions of parts of South America to collect orchids as well 
as certain interesting economic plants. Before making such 
a trip it was necessary to obtain a special permit from the 
Federal Horticultural Board of the Department of Agri- 
culture, in order that the cattleyas and other orchids best 
known to the public might be admitted. These plants, with 
many others, were formerly imported by the thousands, but 
since the enforcement of ‘‘Quarantine Number 37’’ very few 
have entered the country. The fact that the Missouri 
Botanical Garden is prepared to combat any injurious insect 
or fungous pest which may happen to inhabit the collected 
specimens was undoubtedly a factor in obtaining the neces- 
sary permit. 
During the recent annual orchid displays the visitors have 
repeatedly manifested a desire to see an exhibition of orchid 
