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completed that they will soon be ready for publication. 
Through the summer, I utilized a four months’ leave of 
absence by visiting the Azores, where a large collection 
was made, quite fully representing the flora of these 
islands, and adding somewhat to what was known of the 
distribution of species through the groups of islands. 
This collection is now being worked over by me, and may, 
perhaps, form the subject for a paper to be published in 
the seventh Garden Report. Mr. Smith is at present 
devoting a portion of his time to a study of the Capsicums 
which have been cultivated and collected during the past 
three years, and toward which study Dr. E. Lewis Sturte- 
vant contributed his valuable sets of notes, drawings, and 
specimens in 1892.* 
Four annual events have taken place in the manner 
directed in Henry Shaw’s will: namely, the preaching of a 
sermon on the wisdom and goodness of God as shown in 
the growth of flowers, fruits, and other products of the 
vegetable kingdom; the fifth banquet to the Trustees of 
the Garden and their invited guests; the fifth banquet to 
the gardeners of the institution and invited florists, nur- 
serymen and market gardeners; and the award of pre- 
miums or prizes to a flower show or exhibition. 
The flower sermon was preached in Christ Church Cathe- 
dral, St. Louis, on the morning of May 13, by Right 
Reverend T. F. Gailor, Assistant Bishop of Tennessse. 
The Trustees’ banquet was given at the Mercantile Club 
of St. Louis, on the night of May 18, and was presided 
over by Professor H. 8. Pritchett, President of the Acad- 
emy of Science of St. Louis. Covers were laid for about 
seventy-five persons. Among those present were: — 
J. C. Arthur, Shepard Barclay, 
Purdue University. Jefferson City, Mo. 
O. D. Ashley, C. C. Hemenway, 
New York. Pritchett Institute. 
* Fourth Garden Report, p. 15. 
