SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR. 21 
The annual events provided for in Mr. Shaw’s will have 
taken place as follows: the preaching of a sermon on the 
wisdom and goodness of God as shown in the growth of 
flowers, fruits, and other productions of the vegetable 
kingdom; the sixth banquet to the Trustees of the Garden 
and their invited guests; the sixth banquet to the gardeners 
of the institution and invited florists, nurserymen and 
market gardeners; and the award of premiums or prizes 
at a flower show or exhibition held in St. Louis. 
The flower sermon was preached in Christ Church 
Cathedral, St. Louis, on the morning of May 19th, by Rt. 
Rev. W. C. Doane, Bishop of Albany. 
The Trustees’ banquet was given at the Planters’ House, 
on the evening of May 17th, and was presided over by 
Chancellor W. S. Chaplin, of Washington University, 92 
gentlemen representative of St. Louis or distinguished as 
teachers or investigators in various parts of the country 
being present. 
Speeches appropriate to the occasion were made by 
President Henry Wade Rogers, of Northwestern Univer- 
sity, whose address is elsewhere printed in the Seventh 
Report, by direction of the Board; Hon. Smith P. Galt, 
of St. Louis; Professor W. O. Atwater, of Wesleyan 
University; and Rev. Dr. J. W. Lee, of St. Louis. 
On the evening of the 14th of September, the sixth 
annual banquet to the gardeners of the: institution, and 
invited florists, nurserymen, and market gardeners of St. 
Louis and vicinity, was given at the University Club, St. 
Louis. Covers were laid for one hundred persons, com- 
prising the gardeners and office staff of the Missouri Botan- 
ical Garden, several members of the Board of Trustees, a 
large number of commercial florists and market gardeners 
of the vicinity, a number of amateurs interested in gardening 
and home improvement, and representatives of the horti- 
cultural press and the horticultural societies of Missouri 
and adjacent States. The Director of the Garden pre- 
sided, assisted by Professor J. C. Whitten, of the Univer- 
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