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management of the Florists' Club of St. Louis ; and the 

 fourth banquet to florists, gardeners, and nurserymen. 



The flower sermon will be printed in the fifth Report of 

 the Garden, which will also include an abstract of the pro- 

 ceedings at the Trustees' banquet. The annual convention 

 of the Society of American Florists in St. Louis in August 

 last brought so many representative florists together that 

 an invitation to visit the garden in a body was extended 

 to them, which was accepted by about 300 delegates, on 

 the tenth of August, on which occasion, by direction of 

 the Board, an open-air collation was served, in lieu of the 

 gardeners' banquet heretofore given in the autumn. In 

 addition to the members of the Society, several dis- 

 tinguished European horticulturists were present, among 

 them Mr. E. H. Krelage, of Haarlem, M. Jules Lemoine, 

 Superintendent of the parks of Paris ; Mr. George Nichol- 

 son, Curator of the Royal Gardens at Kew, England; Mr. 

 Ludwig Schiller, in charge of the German gardening 

 exhibits in Chicago ; and Professor L. Wittmack, of Berlin, 

 editor of the most important horticultural journal of 

 Germany. The Director of the Garden and his assistants, 

 the Head Gardener and foremen and their principal assist- 

 ants, and the pupils holding garden scholarships, were also 

 present. Owing to the informal character of the gather- 

 ing, no speeches were made, but the guests were shown 



over the grounds by the garden staff, and made to feel at 

 home in the Garden. 



The Shaw premiums were offered last year for the same 

 class of plants as in 1891 and 1892,* the amount awarded 

 being $400.00. After consultation with the officers of the 

 Florists' Club, the sum of $100.00 was reserved from the 

 amount set aside for annual premiums, to cover the expense 

 of preparing dies for a gold medal of the value of $25.00; 

 and at its June meeting, the Board of Trustees of the 

 Garden founded such a medal, M to be known as the Henry 





Third Report, page 18; fourth Report, page 19. 



