FOURTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR. 23 
The banquet to the Trustees of the Garden, and their 
guests, was given at the Southern Hotel, on the evening of 
May 17th. Bishop Tuttle, of the Board of Trustees, pre- 
sided. Covers were laid for 99 persons, among whom 
were the Trustees of the Garden, representative citizens 
of St. Louis, and a number of prominent educators and 
investigators from a distance. Speeches appropriate to 
the occasion were made by Dr. E. A. Birge, Acting Pres- 
ident of the University of Wisconsin, Professor J. A. 
Holmes, State Geologist of North Carolina, and Messrs. 
Smith P. Galt and W. M. Reedy, of St. Louis. 
The thirteenth banquet tothe gardeners of the institution 
and invited florists, etc., was given on the evening of No- 
vember 19th, at the Mercantile Club. In the absence of 
the Director, who was unable to be present, Mr. ae. C, 
Irish, his Horticultural Assistant, presided. One hundred 
and ten persons were present, including, in addition to the 
gardeners and office staff, a number of representative florists, 
nurserymen, market gardeners and amateurs, as well as a 
large number of the gentlemen in attendance at the Ameri- 
can Apple Growers’ Congress, then in session at St. Louis. 
Dr. John Green, of the Board of Trustees of the Garden, 
officiated as toast-master and the following toasts were 
proposed: The American Apple Growers’ Congress, re- 
sponse by Mr. Charles H. Williamson, of Quincy, Ils. ; 
The Garden Pupils, response by Professor A. T. Erwin, 
of Ames, Ia.; Professional Men as Orchardists, response 
by Mr. Albert Blair, of St. Louis; The Plant Patholo- 
gist, response by Dr. H. von Schrenk, of St. Louis; The 
St. Louis Florists’ Club, response by President J. W. 
Dunford, Jr.; The American Pomological Society, re- 
sponse by President C. L. Watrous; Our Forests, response 
by Dr. Tarleton H. Bean, of the World’s Fair; Horticul- 
ture at the Exposition, response by Mr. F. W. Taylor, of 
the World’s Fair; Henry Shaw, response by Mr. F. N. 
Judson, of St. Louis. 
