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Garden, bringing a net income of nearly $250,000 a year, here- 
tofore largely consumed in taxes, street improvements, and other 
unproductive lines, promises soon to become more largely avail- 
able for the direct development of the garden. The improved 
planted part of the garden consists of about 60 acres, while 
there still remain about 60 acres in field crops and pastures. 
When the present plans are consummated, and the new con- 
servatories and new heating plant now building are finished, the 
garden will be one of the foremost developments of its kind in 
this country. 
As was mentioned above, the Missouri Botanical Garden is 
of undoubted great educational value to the public and to the 
schools of St. Louis and environs. ‘Teachers bring their pupils 
there at irregular but frequent intervals; the chrysanthemum dis- 
plays delight large crowds at the fall flower shows; and study 
material is furnished to schools on request. Special displays 
also attract large numbers, such as the fruiting fig trees, growing 
outdoors along a stone wall which helps to protect them in winter, 
the aquatic gardens, the cactus houses, and the beds of medicinal 
plants. ‘The new palm houses and conservatories, to be finished 
this fall, will contribute largely to the beauty and attractiveness 
of the garden. 
To encourage the attendance of advanced students of 
botany, the Missouri Botanical Garden offers every year five 
research fellowships and one teaching fellowship, each of the 
value of $500. The fellows are all required to become candi- 
dates for higher degrees. Besides these, there are appointed six 
garden pupils, each of whom serves for four years, receiving 
$350 the first year and $380 thereafter, till the end of the ap- 
pointment. The garden pupils, after a four-years’ course in 
horticulture, landscape architecture, practical gardening, and 
greenhouse management, generally go into the work of city parks 
and the management of private estates. 
The equipment for research work at the Missouri Botanical 
Garden is quite complete along certain lines. The herbarium is 
one of the largest in the country, comprising nearly a million 
sheets; while there are twelve thousand species of living plants 
growing in the garden and greenhouses. The library is large. 
comprising about 70,000 volumes and pamphlets, each pamphlet 

