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94 ' MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN, 
Bogula,—a former garden pupil, subsequently broadly 
trained and experienced in responsible work both in this 
country and abroad. 
SPECIAL TESTAMENTARY PROVISIONS. 
Three of the annual events provided for in the will of 
Mr. Shaw have taken place in 1910. 
The flower sermon was preached in Christ Church Cathe- 
dral, St. Louis, on the morning of May 22 by the Right 
Reverend Charles P. Anderson, Bishop of Chicago. 
The sum set apart for floral premiums was once more 
entrusted to the St. Louis Horticultural Society for award 
in connection with an exhibition held early in November: 
no award was made of the Shaw medal." 
The twenty-first banquet to the gardeners of the institu- 
tion and invited florists, nurserymen and market-gardeners 
was given at the Southern Hotel on the evening of August 
11th, 1910, the Director of the Garden presiding. There 
were present 129 persons. Following the dinner, speeches 
appropriate to the occasion were made by Hon. J. H. Gund- 
lach, Acting Mayor of St. Louis; President J. W. Stanton 
of the American Apple Growers’ Congress, which was then 
meeting in St. Louis; President L. A. Goodman of the 
American Pomological Society; Professor C. H. Dutcher, 
representing the State Horticultural Society and the State 
Board of Horticulture; Secretary J. T. Stinson of the State 
Fair; Professor W. B. Alwood, of the United States Depart- 
ment of Agriculture; President W. P. Stark of the American 
Association of Nurserymen; Secretaries Mayo Fesler and 
Roger Baldwin of. the Civic League of St. Louis, and Hon. 
C. P. Walbridge. 
Very respectfully, 
WiiiurAmM TRELEASE, 
Director. 
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