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vegetable kingdom;’’* the seventh ‘banquet to the 
Trustees of the Garden’’ * and their invited guests; the 
seventh ‘ banquet to the gardeners of the institution, and 
invited. florists, nursery-men, and market gardeners; ”’ * 
and the award of ‘‘ premiums or prizes to a flower show,”’ * 
held in St. Louis. 
The flower sermon was preached in Christ Church 
Cathedral, St. Louis, on the morning of May 17th, by 
Right Reverend Ellison Capers, of South Carolina. 
The Trustees’ banquet was given at the Mercantile Club, 
on the evening of May 1, and was presided over by Mr. 
Henry Hitchcock, Vice-President of the Board of Trustees, 
eighty-five representative gentlemen being present. 
Speeches appropriate to the occasion were made by Hon. 
¥. W. Lehman, Prof. F. Lamson Scribner, of the United 
States Department of Agriculture, Mr. Alexander G. 
Cochran, Hon. Jas. O. Broadhead, Prof. Howard Ayers, 
of the University of Missouri, and Gen. George H. 
Shields. 
The seventh annual banquet to the gardeners of the 
institution, and invited florists, nurserymen, and market 
gardeners, was given at the Mercantile Club, on the even- 
ing of September 16. Covers were laid for about 125 
guests, among whom were the members of the Association 
of American Cemetery Superintendents, in convention in 
St. Louis, the gardeners of the Botanical Garden, repre- 
sentative florists, market gardeners and nurserymen of St. 
Louis, officers and representative members of the Missouri 
State Horticultural Society and of similar societies of 
Illinois, the President-elect of the Society of American 
Florists, a number of representative amateur horticulturists 
of St. Louis and vicinity, and members of the office staff 
and Board of Trustees of the Garden. The Director of 
the Garden presided, and after the dinner appropriate 
speeches were made by O. C. Simonds, of Chicago, Presi- 
* First Report, 49. 
