20 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 
school. grounds, by suitable planting, and addresses on this 
subject were delivered by Professor J. C. Whitten, of the 
University of Missouri, Mr. James Newton Baskett, of 
Mexico, Missouri, Professor W. J. Stevens, of Carthage, 
Missouri, and Honorable Norman J. Colman, formerly 
United States Secretary of Agriculture.* 
As in previous seasons, the award of premiums for flow- 
ers and plants was intrusted to the St. Louis Florists’ 
Club, on the occasion of their Chrysanthemum Exhibition, 
held in the Coliseum of the Exposition Building, Nov. 14 
to 19, inclusive. In the main, awards were made for the 
general class of exhibits heretofore approved. In the early 
part of the season notices were inserted in several of the 
trade journals, calling attention to the Shaw medal for a 
plant of decided merit for cultivation not previously an 
article of North American commerce, and introduced to 
such commerce by the exhibitor during the year in which 
said award is made.f 
As a result, this year three plants were entered in com- 
petition for the gold medal, two of which were really choice 
plants such as the establishment of the medal was intended 
to enable the residents of St. Louis to see. The medal was 
awarded to Henry Clinkaberry, gardener to Mr. C. S. 
Roebling, of Trenton, N. J., for a hybrid Cypripedium 
named James K. Polk and said to be a cross between 
C. nitens magnificum and C. Chamberlainianum. With 
the permission of Mr. Roebling, Mr. Clinkaberry has pre- 
sented to the Garden the specimen on which the award was 
made. 
THE SCHOOL OF BOTANY. 
The undergraduate work of the Henry Shaw School of 
Botany for the past year has been conducted on the lines 
announced in my earlier reports. 
* The proceedings are reported at length in the issues of Colman’s 
Rural World of Nov. 30, Dec. 7, and Dec. 14, 1899. 
+ Report. 56:18, 19. 9:19. 10:32. t Report. 10: 33. 
