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might appropriately be met from municipal appropriation, but 
there is little likelihood of this; there is every advantage in having 
it met from private funds, and preferably in the form of income 
from endowment. The salaries offered to curators should be 
sufficient to enable us to command the very best talent available— 
to meet the salaries of full professorships in our best universities. 
In other words, an endowment of not less than $500,000 is ur- 
gently needed for this purpose; ultimately, the amount should be 
increased. Our laboratory building was planned with the idea of 
housing precisely this kind of work. The bulk of the necessary 
equipment we now have; it remains for us merely to utilize our 
plant to its full capacity. 
Many of the above items were included in Appendix I to the 
Sixth Annual Report of the Garden, for 1916, entitled, “ Aims 
and a Program for the Second Five Years.’ The plan of devel- 
opment for the first five years of the Garden was accomplished 
substantially as outlined. Three of the second five years have 
now passed, but we have not accomplished three fifths of the 
program. 
Material Needs—Among the innumerable material needs at- 
tention should especially be called to the following four: 
1, A new, unclimbable iron fence to surround the entire prop- 
erty. We shall never be able to control access to the grounds 
until this fence is built. Closely connected with this is the mat- 
ter of suitable entrances, with baffle gates for exit. 
2. Permanent stone steps and bridges to replace several tem- 
porary wooden structures erected in 1914 and now beginning to 
deteriorate. 
3. Park benches. Attention has been called to this item in 
preceding reports. The City has declined, for several years, to 
make an appropriation for this purpose. The urgency of the 
need may be inferred from the fact that visitors to the Garden, 
in increasing numbers each season, bring folding chairs as the 
only alternative to standing or walking. 
4. The necessity of providing a plot for a nursery and experi- 
mental garden, outside of but readily accessible to the Garden 
proper, should not be lost sight of. ‘Ultimately such a plot will 
become absolutely necessary. 
