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MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BULLETIN 7 
munity and in the country. To a greater extent than ever 
before the Missouri Botanical Garden is recognized as a 
source of information along botanical lines, and the increase 
in the requests from commercial concerns, educational and 
scientific institutions, as well as private individuals from 
all over the country, has more than kept pace with the in- 
crease in attendance. The way in which the Garden is called 
upon to furnish information from either its library, herba- 
rium, laboratories, or garden staff, on every conceivable aspect 
of plants or their products, is a constant source of wonder. 
While this might be expected from the citizens of St. Louis, 
the greater number of requests come from individuals and 
concerns so far away that one is surprised that they ever 
heard of the Missouri Botanical Garden. Of course, the pub- 
lications of the Garden are widely distributed, the ANNALS 
going to practically every botanical institution in the world 
and the BULLETIN reaching a vast number of plant lovers in 
this country. A recent letter from the director of a foreign 
botanical garden states: ‘‘We get the publications from your 
garden regularly and find many exceedingly able and useful 
monographs and articles therein. In fact, we constantly 
refer to them in our every-day work.’’ And the head of a 
French scientific society writes: ‘‘We have just received the 
recent number of your Annals. This interesting publication, 
which we greatly appreciate, is a welcome addition to our 
library, where it holds one of the best places, as it justly 
should.’’ The inclusion of our flower shows in the national 
and international circuits of several moving-picture con- 
cerns has likewise done much to inform the world of some 
of the activities at the Garden, and within the last year or 
two the radio has likewise been a factor in disseminating 
information from the Garden. Practically all of the con- 
ventions which come to St. Louis devote a part of their 
program to a visit to the Garden, and this likewise assists 
in acquainting people away from St. Louis with the institu- 
tion. During the past year two interviews were published in 
a local paper, one from a man from Spain, the other from 
North Dakota, and if all visitors are impressed in the same 
way it is easy to understand why the Missouri Botanical 
Garden commands the position it does. 
