PROCEEDINGS AT THE THIRD ANNUAL BANQUET TO GAR- 

 DENERS, FLORISTS AND NURSERYMEN, 



GIVEN AT THE MERCANTILE CLUB, NOVEMBER 7, 1892. 



On behalf of the Board of Trustees, invitations were 

 issued in the autumn for the third gardeners' banquet, 

 provided for in Mr. Shaw's will, in response to which about 

 seventy-five gentlemen assembled at the Mercantile Club on 

 the evening of the 7th of November, 1892, among them 

 beinp;: — 



Mr. Levi Chubbuck, 



Secretary State Bd. Agriculture 

 Mr. A. S. Halstead, 



Belleville, 111. 

 Professor C. A. Kkkfkr, 



of the State Uuiversity, 

 Mr. G. E. Meissner, 



Bashberg, Mo. 

 Mr. E. A. Riehl, 



Pres. So. 111. Horticultural Soc'y. 

 Judge A. J. Shores, 



Clayton, Mo. 

 Mr. G. K. Andrews, 

 Mr. Luther Armstrong, 

 Mr. E. Beaumont, 

 Mr. J. J. Beneke, 

 Mr. Chas. Beyer, 

 Mr. D. S. Brown, 

 Mr. C Buechler, 

 Mr. D. I. BusnNELL, 

 Mr. H. W. Chandler, Jr., 

 Hon. N. J. Colman, 

 Mr. Chalmer D. Colman, 

 Mr. Chas. Connon, 

 Mr. J. F. Dickmann, 

 Mr. Wm, Ellison, 

 Mr. Jos. Epstein, 

 Mr. Richard Frow, 

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Mr. J. P. Fkchter, 



City Park Commissioner. 

 Mr. E. W. Guy, 

 Mr. J. K. Gwynn, 



Comr. Columbian Exposition. 

 Mr. Henry C. Haarstick, 

 Mr. W. A. Hanft, 



Mr. L. Hunt, 



Supt. Lafayette Park. 

 Mr. P. Jackson, 

 Mr. J. M. Jordan, 

 Mr. S. Kehrmann, Jr., 

 Mr. J. Koenig, 

 Mr. C. A. Kueiin, 

 Mr. J. W. Kunz, 

 Mr. Leonard Matthews, 

 Mr. E. A. Michel, 

 Mr. E. H. Michel, 

 Mr. C. W. Murtfeldt, 

 Mr. A. Oppermann, 

 Mr. F. W. Ostertag, 

 Mr. H. C. Ostertag, 

 Mr. Robert Oughton, 

 Mr. Wm. Pape, 

 Mr. F. S. Plant, 

 Mr. C. E. Prunty, 

 Mr. C. C. Sanders, 

 Mr. Emile Schray, 



