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cent. during the past ten years; of the Junior High Schools, 81 
per cent. in 1930 and 85 per cent. during the past ten years. 
This cooperation has been up to our capacity to respond, and 
the service could be enriched and extended if we had larger ap- 
propriations for this purpose in the Tax Budget. As it is, much 
of the cost of the service has to be met from private funds income, 
to the impoverishment of our scientific work, and the extension and 
maintenance of our collections of living plants, the herbarium, and 
the library, which are entirely financed ie private funds. Fuller 
statements of the work are given in the appended reports of the 
curators of public instruction and elementary instruction, and in 
Table IT 
The City and the Garden for Twenty Years 
It may be of interest, both locally and in other cities to know just 
what advantage the city has derived, in terms of dollars and cents, 
by the co-partnership with the Botanic Garden during the past 
twenty years. 
3y expending a total of approximately $376,422 in corporate 
stock, tax notes, and special revenue bonds for permanent improve- 
ments the city has secured the expenditure of approximately $176,- 
270 of private funds for the same purpose 
provement of city owned property. 
Since the Garden was established in 1910 the annual appro- 
priations of the City for maintenance (not including permanent 
improvements) have totaled $1,290,026.41. By making these ap- 
propriations the City has secured twenty annual appropriations of 
private funds amounting to a total of $814,859.41. The total 
maintenance cost, therefore, has been $2,104,885.82 
The total number of visitors to the Garden during its first 20 
years 1s approximately 9,000,000. 
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The maintenance, therefore, has, for the 20 year period, cost 23 
cents per visitor or only 1.15 cents per year per visitor. Of this 
amount the City has paid in the Tax Budget appropriations for 
the 20 year period a [4 cents per visitor, or only 0.7 cent. 
In other words, the Garden has cost the City less than three quar- 
ters of a cent per year per visitor. 
The Tax Budget appropriation of $101,006.67 for maintenance 
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