THIRTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR. 25 
The Trustees’ banquet was given at the Southern Hotel, 
St. Louis, on the evening of May 18. Covers were laid 
for fifty-two persons, comprising, in addition to mem- 
bers of the Board, representative citizens of St. Louis, 
and members of the scientific staff of several universities. 
Professor E. A. Engler presided. Speeches appropriate 
to the occasion were made by Professor C. M. Wood- 
ward, Mayor Rolla Wells, Hon. Isaac H. Lionberger and 
Rev. C. H. Patton. 
The twelfth annual banquet to the gardeners of the in- 
stitution and invited florists, nurserymen and market 
gardeners was given at the Mercantile Club on the even- 
ing of December 7. About ninety persons were present, 
among whom were the gardeners of the Botanical Garden, 
officers of the St. Louis Florists’ Club and a considerable 
number of representative florists; officers of the local Mar- 
ket Gardeners’ Association and other representative market 
gardeners, seedsmen and nurserymen; a number of profes- 
sional and amateur horticulturists from St. Louis and vari- 
ous parts of Missouri and adjacent states; representatives 
of the press; a number of gentlemen from St. Louis and 
other cities who are interested in the growth of trees as a 
means of civic improvement and beautification; members 
of the office staff and Board of Trustees of the Garden; 
and the instructors in the Henry Shaw School of Botany. 
The Director of the Garden presided, in accordance with 
the provisions of Mr. Shaw’s will, and after the dinner the 
need, possibility and means of securing a large increase in 
the planting of shade trees along the streets of the city 
were discussed, the speakers of the evening being Mr. F. 
W. Taylor of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, Mr. F. 
N. Judson, Mr. Paul F. Coste, Mr. W. J. Stevens, Judge 
A. O. Marshall, President of the Board of Education of 
Joliet, Illinois, Mr. James H. Ferriss, editor of the Joliet 
Daily News, and Dr. Hermann von Schrenk, of the Shaw 
School of Botany. The last-named gentleman, on behalf of 
