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merits the gardening force has been strengthened by the 

 enrollment of men of both knowledge and experience, 

 through whose efforts I hope for the enlargement and 

 gradual utilization for research of some of the more impor- 

 tant collections of living plants. 



SPECIAL TESTAMENTARY PROVISIONS. 



Four special events provided for in the will of Mr. Shaw 

 have taken place in 1904, as follows: 



The annual flower sermon was preached in Christ Church 



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their guests was given at the Buckingham Club, on the 

 evening of September 22d. Covers were laid for 185 

 gentlemen, among whom were many of the distinguished 

 participants in the International Congress of Arts and 

 Science, then meeting in St. Louis. Mr. Chaplin presided, 

 and after the dinner speeches appropriate to the occasion 

 were made by the Right Honorable James Bryce of London, 

 President D. R. Francis of the Louisiana Purchase Expo- 

 sition, Professor Wilhelm Ostwald of Leipzig, Mr. A. R. 

 von Stibral, Commissioner-General for Austria ; Dr. Paul 

 Mayer of Paris, and Signor Attilio Brunialti of Rome. 



By authority of the Board, the fifteenth banquet to the 

 gardeners of the institution and invited florists, etc., was 



given as a collation served in the Linnean House on the 

 afternoon of August 19th, when 465 members of the 

 Society of American Florists were received as the guests 

 of the Garden. 



In connection with the Exposition, a "World's Fair 

 Flower Show Association" was formed in the autumn, 

 under the auspices of which a flower show was held on the 

 Exposition grounds from November 7th to 12th, inclusive. 

 By authority of the Trustees of the Garden, there were 



