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In addition to the outdoor and indoor collections of 
plants, the garden maintains one of the best botanical 
libraries and herbariums in the United States, and 
these two features serve as most important adjuncts 
The Grotto of Ferns in the Glass Garden, with Its Running 
Brook Giving it an Added Charm. 
to the Shaw School of Botany which, with adequate 
laboratory facilities, devotes its principal endeavor 
to the training of graduate students in botany, these 
students receiving their master's or doctor's degree 
from Washington University. 
The small museum and library building, erected 
by Mr. Shaw, is now devoted to a remarkably fine col- 
lection of specimens illustrating the diseases of wood, 
and from time to time special exhibitions of special 
interest are shown here. 
In addition to the graduate students, a school for 
gardeners is maintained, which, because of the unique 
opportunities available, and the special character of 
the work, is perhaps not to be equaled elsewhere in 
this country. Young men and women who have re- 
ceived a high school training or its equivalent are 
admitted on examination and devote three years, of 
twelve months each, to the practical and theoretical 
aspects of landscape designing, floriculture, horticul-j 
ture, engineering, etc. The courses include such sub- 
jects as diseases of plants, entomology, soils, mechani- 
cal and freehand drawing, plant breeding, general and 
systematic botany, as well as the various more strictly 
horticultural subjects. 
It has been amply demonstrated that a garden of 
this character will furnish recreation and pleasure to 
thousands who are not seeking merely for amuse- 
ment, and every effort is made to have the collections, 
in so far as possible, informational if not instructive. 
Naturally, such a place must be attractive and the 
mere accumulation of numbers of botanical species, 
crowded together, will not answer the purpose. By 
maintaining floral displays of plants which are either 
little known, or because of the wealth of bloom and 
color cannot be seen elsewhere, and by showing rare 
tropical plants which, because of their fruit or use in 
commerce, are known to the average individual, as 
well as the commoner things which are frequently 
read about but seldom seen, the garden is able to 
make a definite appeal to many. Such an institution, 
with the various enterprises referred to, is naturally 
expensive to maintain and it is impossible to do all in 
any one department that might be desirable. How- 
ever, it is believed that the income will eventually be 
sufficient to support the various projects now under 
way and that ultimately the Missouri Botanical Gar- 
den will become an even greater monument to the 
greatest patron of botany and horticulture that this 
country has ever known. 
Extracts from lecture before Massachusetts Horticultural Society, by 
Dr. George T. Moore. Director Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, Mo. 
The Semi-Tropieal Garden Under Glass with its Towering 
Aeaeias and Semi-Tropieal Plants of Many Species. 
EXTENDING ITS WAREHOUSE FACILITIES. 
HPHE MacNiff Horticultural Company of New York 
has recently leased the five-story building, 52 Vesey 
Street adjoining the buildings 54 & 56 Vesey Street, 
which it at present occupies. This gives to the company 
three large warehouses, one of which is to be devoted 
to its retail seed department while the other buildings 
will house the plant department and the auction rooms. 
