TOUETH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR. 19 



the laboratory, and all of the theoretical instruction is ex- 

 pected to be practically tested in the performance of the 

 manual work required of students. 



Four annual events provided for under the will of Henry 

 Shaw have taken place in the course of the year, namely : 

 the delivery of the third flower sermon, in Christ Church 

 Cathedral, by Rev. Cameron Mann, of Kansas City ; the 

 third banquet to the Trustees of the Garden and their guests, 

 presided over by the Chancellor of Washington University ; 

 the third banquet to gardeners, florists and nurserymen, pre- 

 sided over by the Director of the Garden ; and the award of 

 the second series of Shaw premiums at a floral exhibition, 

 given under the management of the Florists' Club of St. 

 Louis. 



The flower sermon will be printed in the Fourth Report 

 of the Garden, which will include also abstracts of the 

 proceedings at the two banquets. The Shaw premiums 

 were offered for the same class of plants as in 189 1 . * Com- 

 petition was not made for several of them, but the fol- 

 lowing awards were recommended by the officers of the 

 Florists' Club and approved by the Board of Trustees: 

 Chrysanthemums (including a new seedling of decided 

 merit), $97.00; Orchids, $20.00; Palms, $132.00; Ferns, 

 $38.00; Oxalis, $8.00; Crotons, Cannas, and decora- 

 tive plants other than the above, $92.00. The seedling 

 Chrysanthemum which received the Shaw premium in 1891 

 was exhibited under the name Mrs. E. D. Adams, by Pitcher 

 and Manda. That of 1892, named for President W. R. 

 Smith (of the Society of American Florists), was exhibited 

 by E. G. Hill. 



The School of Botany. 



Until the end of the college year 1891-2, Mr. H. J. 

 Webber continued to act as my assistant at the School of 

 Botany, performing duties similar to those of the preced- 



* See Third Report, p. 18. 



