PEE 
FIFTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR. 37 
The fourteenth banquet to the gardeners of the institu- 
tion was given at the Mercantile Club on the evening of 
Friday, December 11, 1903. Seventy-two persons were 
present, including — in addition to representatives of the 
Board of Trustees, the office staff, the instructional force 
of the School of Botany, and investigators working at the 
Garden—the gardeners and senior garden pupils of the 
institution, local florists, horticulturists, market gardeners 
and seedsmen, a number of gentlemen connected with the 
approaching World’s Fair, and the Secretary of the Ameri- 
can Pomological Society. After the dinner, an account of 
the uses being made of horticulture in the broad sense at. 
the Exposition was given by Mr. G. E. Kessler, Landscape 
Gardener, Dr. Tarleton H. Bean, Chief of the Department 
of Forestry, Fisheries and Game, and Professor F. W. 
Taylor, Chief of the Department of Horticulture and 
Agriculture, of the Exposition, who illustrated their remarks 
by lantern views showing plans and progress effected. 
M. J. Vacherot, Architect of the Parks and Gardens of 
Paris, was the last speaker, of the evening. 
As in 1902, no flower show was held in the city, so that 
again no claim has been made for the premiums provided 
for in the will of the founder of the Garden. 
Very respectfully, 
WILLIAM TRELEASE, 
Director. 
