TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR. 23 
was then meeting in St. Louis. The Director of the Garden 
presided. 
The dinner was followed by speeches appropriate to the 
occasion by Mr. J. H. Dayton, of Ohio, President-elect of 
the American Association of Nurserymen; Mr. Adolph 
Jaenicke, of the Missouri Botanical Garden; Mr. J. J. 
Beneke, Secretary of the St. Louis Florist Club; Hon. 
Dwight F. Davis, Park Commissioner of the City of St. 
Louis; Mr. J. W. Hill, of Iowa; Hon. John H. Gundlach, 
President of the City Council of St. Louis, and Professor 
J. ©. Whitten of the University of Missouri. 
Very respectfully, 
WILLIAM TRELEASE, 
Director. 
