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area is about one hundred and sixty acres, and will be ma- 
terially increased in size. A small museum, library and 
herbarium building has been erected near the main entrance. 
The great “ Silva of North America” and the journal ‘‘ Gar- 
den and Forest” are noteworthy publications from this noble 
institution. 
3. The Botanic Gardens of the United States Department 
of Agriculture, at Washington, have an extensive range of 
greenhouses and a large tract of land under cultivation. The 
herbarium of the department, now deposited with the United 
States National Museum, is very large, and is at present in- 
creasing more rapidly than any other in America. There is 
a somewhat effective working library, which greatly needs 
material enlargement, and several poorly located and 
equipped laboratories, in which a vast amount of important 
investigation is being accomplished, under very unfavorable 
conditions, which urgently demand improvement. Publica- 
tions include: Bulletin of the Botanical Division, Bulletin of 
the Division of Forestry, Bulletin of the Division of Plant 
Pathology and Physiology, Contributions from the United 
States National Herbarium, Year-Book of the United States 
Department of Agriculture, and circulars of the several di 
visions. 
. The Missouri Botanical Garden, at St. Louis, Mo., 
was established in 1889, through the provisions of the will of 
Mr. Henry Shaw, who for over thirty years previously haa 
been bringing together material for it on the land about his 
residence, which was known as Shaw’s Garden. There 
were in all some six hundred and seventy acres devised to the 
institution under the will of the generous and philanthropic 
founder, and from the income yielded by much of this land, 
not nearly all the area being required for garden purposes, 
the institution derives its large maintenance fund, which will 
certainly be greatly increased as the land becomes more 
valuable, and will supply an income sufficient to operate the 
institution in the most effective manner. There are several 
greenhouses, a very large and valuable herbarium and li- 
