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MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN.
WM. TRELEASE, DIRECTOR

A. S. HITCHCOCK, Asst. in Botany.
J. C. DUFFEY, Asst. in Horticulture.
JAMES GURNEY, Head Gardener.
J. W. DUNFORD, Asst. Gardener.

St. Louis,_______________,189_.

study are excellent here, much better than in Dak. but the opportunity for economicbotany is better there. It seems to me now that I ought not give up the Dak. place yet for time there is a fair thing there, and now the indications are that it will come in a couple of years at the most. It is somewhat uncertain however and this is comparatively speaking a sure thing. Missouri is not nearly so healthful a place as Dak. and in other respects is not so nice a place to live in. There are many chances for work and improvement here that are not offered there, and of course many there not gotten here.
Take it all together it is