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late Dr. George Engelmann, and to immediately mount it in the proper 

 manner, so as to insure its preservation and availability for scientific use. 

 Also to provide for and add to the general herbarium (based on that of 

 Bernhardi) now at the garden, with the special object of making it com- 

 plete in good representatives of American plants. 



To arrange, bind, and index the books and pamphlets at the garden. 

 Also to provide more ample, but equally safe, accommodations for the 

 library, to bring it up to date as rapidly as possible, to enter subscriptions 

 to periodical publications, and to keep it abreast of the times and in the 

 most useful form by the purchase of important publications as they shall 

 appear, and by the proper indexing of periodicals and pamphlets. 



To secure a botanical museum containing material needed for study 

 or calculated to advance general or special knowledge of botany. 



To direct the main effort of research for the present toward aiding 

 in the completion of a systematic account of the flowering plants of North 

 America, by the publication of monographs of different orders and gen- 

 era—illustrated when this may seem desirable; and to especially culti- 

 vate representatives of such groups for purposes of study. 



To gradually acquire and utilize facilities for research in vegetable 

 histology and physiology, the diseases and injuries of plants, and other 

 branches of botany and horticulture, as special reason for developing one 

 or the other may appear. 



To make the facilities of the garden useful in botanical and horticul- 

 tural instruction, as they increase and opportunity for such work appears ; 

 meantime in all feasible ways to attract to the School of Botany students 

 of promise, and to provide for their instruction and the best use of their 

 time as investigators. 



To take steps looking to the early appointment of a number of 

 " garden-pupils "—youths with at least an elementary English education, 

 who shall be regarded as apprentices in the garden, working under the 

 direction of the head gardener and foremen, and shall hold scholarships 

 sufficient for their living expenses, together with free tuition in the 

 School of Botany; and who, after having worked for several years in the 

 different departments of the garden, and proved proficient in its practi- 

 cal work, may be admitted to examination for a certificate of proficiency 



in the theory and practice of gardening. 



To have in mind, in appointing associates for the director, their spe- 

 cial aptitude in some one of the branches indicated above, so that with 

 each appointment the efficiency of the institution for instruction and 

 original work may be broadened and increased. 



The fruit of Kibes aureiim Pnrsh. -This fruit is said to be "yellow- 

 ish, turning blackish." Here when fully ripe it is a bright almost orange 

 yellow color, and does not change to darker after falling to the ground or 

 drying on the bushes or being dried in the press. But this year I have 



