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MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 



who had ranked highest among the unsuccessful competitors 

 for the two scholarships awarded in the spring. At the end 

 of December, the scholarship held by Mr. Jesse B. Tuggle 

 was relinquished, and is still free. 



No changes have been made during the year in the teach- 

 ing staff or the prescribed course of study ; but several of the 

 Garden pupils have found time for additional work, of col- 

 lege grade, as special students in Washington University. 



THE GARDEN STAFF. 



Aside from a few changes among library assistants 



gaged 



be 



the addition 



Professor 



ly referred 

 commend 



As in previous years, I can not 



d 



has been rendered by my 



important collections to which the Garden owes its chief 

 value as an establishment for research, and I am especially 

 indebted to Miss Hogan and Miss Brown for important 

 contributions to the last Garden Report. 



SPECIAL TESTAMENTARY PROVISIONS. 



Mr 



taken 





The flower sermon was preached in Christ Church Ca- 

 thedral, St. Louis, on the morning of May twenty-third, by 

 Rt. Reverend F. K. Brooke, Bishop of Oklahoma. 



The sum set apart for floral premiums was once more en- 

 trusted to the. St. Louis Horticultural Society, for use in con- 

 nection with an exhibition held between November ninth and 

 twelfth, but no award was made of the Shaw Medal. 



The twentieth Gardeners' banquet, in the form of an open- 

 air collation, was given in the grounds of the Director's resi- 

 dence at the Garden on July first; some 150 persons being 

 present, of whom many were in attendance at the 

 meeting of the State Board of Horticulture. 



Very respectfully, 



William Trelease, 



Director. 



summer 



