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eo Fund. The obtaining of plants and of speci- 
ns of their products, from distant regions little known botan- 
ically, for onblie display and for expert study, is one of the most - 
important duties of the Garden ; a fund not less than $250,000, 
yielding $10,000 or $12,000 annually, is needed. 
2. Horticultural Fund. In order to develop horticultural 
work, to promptly secure and exhibit all horticultural novelties, 
to investigate horticultural problems, . establish and maintain 
decorative plantations, a fund not less than $100,000 is needed 
to yield at least $4,000 or $5,000 bene 
3. Library Fund, The Library has been built up by gifts from 
friends of the Garden and is now a soils collection of 
botanical and horticultural literature. To ler it more com- 
plete and to permit the purchase of all books ae on botany 
and horticulture, a fund of $50,000, yielding about $2,000 a year, 
is require 
4. Cee Fund. For the purchase of rare, large, or 
otherwise interesting and valuable plants for the public conserva- 
tories whenever offered by dealers or collectors, a fund of $50,000 ° 
is required, to yield about $2,000 annually. 
5. Herbarium Fund. ‘The herbarium is the most important of 
the saci scientific collections of the Garden, because it pro- 
vides ary means for a the names, features 
and i are of plants. It should be continually increased ’- 
by the purchase of specimens from aie all over the world, 
and a fund of $50,000, to yield about $2,000 a year, should be 
provided for this purpose 
6. The Lecture Fund. _Pablic coors on botanical and horti- 
cultural topics are i actors, and the lecture- 
hall in the Museum see is provided for this purpose. Money 
for the preparation of illustrations and the payment of ee 
additional to members of the curatorial staff of the Garden is 
needed, in order that at least one public lecture a week through- 
out the year may be delivered. A fund of $25,000, to yield 
about $1,000 a year, would accomplish this. 
7. Mtustration of the * North American Flora.” It is very de- 
sirable that illustrations in color of native North American plants 
