SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR. 
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Missouri, Professor Oren Root, of Hamilton College, 
President O. D. Ashley, of the Wabash Railway, and Dr. 
John Green and the Reverend William Short, of St. Louis. 
The gardeners’ banquet was given at the Mercantile Club 
of St. Louis, on the night of November 5, and was presided 
over by the Director of the Garden. 
About seventy-five 
guests were present, among them: — 
A. G. Fehr, Belleville, Ill. 
E. W. Guy, Belleville, Ml. 
A. §. Halstead, Belleville, Ill. 
G. E. Meisner, Bushberg, Mo. 
A. Nelson, Lebanon, Mo. 
E. A. Riehl, Alton, Il. 
Homer Riggle, Columbus, O. 
QO. C. Simonds, Chicago, II. 
J. F. Stinson, Fayetteville, Ark. 
A. L. Vaughan, Chicago, Il. 
G. A. Washburn, Bloomington, Ill. 
J. C. Whitten, Columbia, Mo. 
R. W. Ayres, 
J. J. Beneke, 
H. W. Chandler, Jr., 
N. J. Colman, 
C. L. Connon, 
Chas, Connon, 
J. M. Connon, 
J. W. Dunford, Jr., 
Wn. Ellison, 
F, J. Fillmore, 
R. Frow, 
Wm. Hackman, 
J. C. Jannopoulo, 
J. M. Jordan, 
C. A. Juengel, 
Wm. Klockenkemper, 
John Koenig, 
Julius Koenig, 
C. A. Kuehn, 
Geo. Longman, 
Leonard Matthews, 
Fred Meister, 
E. H. Michel, 
F. W. Ostertag, 
Henry Ostertag, 
Wm. Pape, 
Julius Pitzman, 
C. C. Sanders, 
Carew Sanders, 
Wm. Schray, 
J. W. Schuette, 
R. F. Tesson, 
A. Waldbart, 
N. J. Wellhouse, 
J. F. Windt, 
C. W. Wors, 
Harry Young, 
of St. Louis. 
J. W. Branch, 
F. W. Brockman, 
R. J. Lackland, 
D. S. Tuttle, 
of the Board of Trustees, 
A. D. Cunningham, 
Secretary of the Board. 
O. L. Simmons, 
C. H. Thompson, 
of the School of Botany. 
Thomas Doss, 
J. W. Dunford, 
Philip Giebel, 
Jas. Gurney, 
C. E. Hutchings, 
H. C. Irish, 
C. I. Paige, 
J. M. Paige, 
J. P. Pillsbury, 
Chas. Schmidt, 
J. G. Smith, 
Geo. Stockey, 
Wm. Trelease, 
Mike Zavadil, 
of the Botanical Garden. 
