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of herbarium specimens in duplicate — has resulted not only in 

 making the activities of the Garden generally known, but also 

 in material acquisition in excess of the cost of maintaining 

 the exchanges. 



SPECIAL TESTAMENTARY PROVISIONS. 



Four annual events are specifically provided for in the will 

 of Henry Shaw, in connection with the administration of the 

 Garden: a banquet to the Trustees and invited guests; a 

 banquet to the gardeners of the institution and invited flor- 

 ists, nurserymen and market gardeners; premiums or prizes 

 to be offered at a flower show held in St. Louis; and a sermon 

 on the wisdom and goodness of God as shown in the growth 

 of flowers, fruits and other products of the vegetable king- 

 dom. These have received the attention of the Board each 

 year in a manner consonant with the purposes of the testator 

 and calculated to advance the usefulness of the Garden, and 

 have been mentioned in the administrative reports, year by 

 year. In 1908 three of these specific bequests were utilized. 



The flower sermon was preached in Christ Church Cathedral, 

 St. Louis, on the morning of May 17th, by the Right Reverend 

 E. W. Atwill, Bishop of West Missouri. 



The Nineteenth Gardeners' banquet was given at the Mer- 

 cantile Club on the evening of August 12th, 1908. There 

 were present 140 persons, of whom about one-third were mem- 

 bers of the American Apple Growers' Congress, which was 

 then meeting in St. Louis. Under the provisions of Mr. 

 Shaw's will, the Director of the Garden presided. Appropri- 

 ate speeches were made by Captain George T. Lincoln, of 

 Bentonville, Arkansas, President of the Arkansas Horticul- 

 tural Society; Honorable Nikola Kaumanns, of Chicago, Im- 

 perial German Agricultural Attache to the United States; 

 Mr. C. H. Thompson, of the Garden; President L. A. Good- 

 man of the American Pomological Society; Mr. Anton Opper- 

 mann, Secretary of the Gardeners' Association of St. Louis; 

 Professor H. M. Whelpley, of Washington University, and 

 Honorable Norman J, Colman, former United States Secretary 

 of Agriculture. 



