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Agreement of December 28, 1909. above referred to, required the 

 Hoard of Trustees to provide only $50,000 in cash, all of which 

 might have been expended during the Garden's first year, bad the 

 Trustees thought best. The endowment fund, therefore, is a 

 financial contribution of $1,331,449 more than the amount re- 

 quired in the Agreement. For the past eighteen years the private 

 funds budget has averaged more than twice the amount of the cash 

 contribution called for in the agreement. 



2. From 1910 to 1940 the Trustees have provided $100,000 for 

 permanent improvements, in addition to more than $171,600 for 

 that purpose included in the annual maintenance budgets. 



3. It has made thirty annual contributions toward the cost of 

 development and maintenance, totaling $1.432,980.39 — or 65 per 

 cent, as much as the City. 



The expenditures of Private Funds during the thirty-year period 

 total nearly $1,715,000, as against $2,596,056 expended by the 

 City. 



4. It lias developed a tract of 50 acres of partly waste land to 

 serve, not only as an outdoor museum of plant life, but also as a 

 beautiful garden for quiet recreation, specially appreciated by the 

 public because of the absence of automobiles. 



5. Out of private funds it has provided men for guard duty on 

 Sundays, holidays, and at other times, to 'supplement the protec- 

 tion afforded by the police, and to help service the visiting public 

 which, throughout the entire existence of the Garden, has been 

 admitted free every day in the year. 



6. It has served as consultant to and in collaboration with 

 various City Departments, including the Departments of Parks, 

 Education, Higher Education, Finance, Health, and Sanitation. 



7. It has maintained a rich and growing Library on all aspects of 

 plant life and horticulture, acquired at private expense, adminis- 

 tered in part at private expense, and open free daily to the public. 



8. It has acquired and maintains a growing herbarium which is 

 constantly consulted by the scientific and lay public. 



9. It has maintained a bureau of free public information on all 

 aspects of plant life and gardening, in addition to the extensive 

 program of public information already referred to in more detail. 



