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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_.

houses, so am getting some excellent practice.
So far I have failed to see the slightest indication of the so called jeolousy of the Dr, And Webber is in much better spirits than he was when he wrote. I think that he was simply impatient and did not understand all the why & wherefores.
I came down fully intending to go back to Dak. and probably shall but Dr. Trelease is making it hard to decide. When I first came he said that the place would be worth $800 and that one could count on time enough to do one good piece of special work a year. Yesterday he told me that if I would stay I should have $900 and that there