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That, in the man}' specifications of provision for instruction and 

 research, sight should not be lost of his wish that the institution, as 

 a place of beauty, should always afford the pleasure to coming genera- 

 tions that it had given to the people of Mr. Shaw's own day, and that 

 its connection with the outside world might be a pleasing, helpful and 

 broad one, he provides that, though closed on holidays and Sundays 

 as a rule, it shall be ojjened on the afternoon of the first Sunday each 

 in June and September dates on which it presents at their best two 

 distinct phases of its attractiveness, the roses and other spring shrub- 

 bery on the one, and the decorative bedding on the other; that there 

 shall be preached each yea]-, by a preacher and in a church selected 

 by the episcopal bishop of the diocese of Missouri, a sermon on the 

 wisdom and goodness of God as shown in the growth of flowers, fruits, 



Sunday Visitors. 



and other products of the vegetable kingdom; that premiums may 

 each year be awarded at a flower show in St. Louis; and that each year 

 there shall be given a banquet to the trustees of the garden and the 

 guests they may invite literary and scientific men, and friends and 

 patrons of the natural sciences, and a banquet to the gardeners of the 

 institution and invited florists, nurserymen and market gardeners of 

 St. Louis and vicinity. 



Immediately after Mr. Shaw's death, the admittance of his will to 

 probate making known the constitution of his board of trustees, the 

 latter organized and appointed as director the professor selected by 

 Mr. Shaw to take charge of the school of botany, defining his duties 

 as 'the duties prescribed for that office in the last will of Henry Shaw, 

 deceased, and such other duties as may from time to time be pre- 



