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with a considerable number of prominent investigators and 
educators through the United States and the adjacent 
British possessions. The banquet for 1898 was given at 
the St. Nicholas Hotel, St. Louis, on the evening of May 
14. Dr. John Green presided. Sixty-four persons were 
present. The speakers were Dr. F. H. Snow, Chancellor 
of the University of Kansas, Rt. Rev. Leighton Coleman, 
Bishop of the Episcopal diocese of Delaware, Professor 
Conway MacMillan, of the University of Minnesota, and 
Hon. C. P. Walbridge, of St. Louis. 
The annual banquet to the gardeners of the institution 
and invited florists, nurserymen and market gardeners,* 
has resulted in bringing together, each year, the most 
prominent workers in horticulture in St. Louis and a con- 
siderable number of active and distinguished horticulturists 
from a distance. The banquet for 1898 was given at the 
Mercantile Club, on the evening of November 19. Covers 
were laid for one hundred persons, among whom, in addi- 
tion to the gardeners and office staff of the institution, and 
representative local horticulturists, were several officers of 
the State Horticultural Society of Missouri, the Presi- 
dent-elect of the Society of American Florists, the 
Superintendent of Public Instruction of Missouri, the 
Superintendent of Instruction of St. Louis, and repre- 
sentatives of the horticultural press. The Director of 
the Garden presided, and Professor E. A. Engler, Presi- 
dent of The Academy of Science of St. Louis, officiated 
as toastmaster. The speakers of the evening were W. 
N. Rudd, of Chicago, President-elect of the Society of 
American Florists; George B. Lamm, of Sedalia, Missouri, 
Chairman of the Committee on Horticultural Education of 
the State Horticultural Society of Missouri; F. L. Soldan, 
Superintendent of Instruction of St. Louis; L. A. Good- 
man, Secretary of the State Horticultural Society of Mis- 
* Rept. 2335. 83:18, 57. 4:19,44. 63:18. 6:19. 7:21. 8334. 
9:18. 
