MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BULLETIN ne! A 
Mr. John Noyes, formerly landscape adviser to the 
Garden, has been appointed an assistant town planner, and 
is now engaged in an elaborate Government housing prop- 
osition at Davenport, Iowa. 
Mr. C. L. Moody, formerly in charge of trees and shrubs 
at the Garden, is at Camp Devens, Ayer, Mass., having at- 
tained corporal rank since being drafted. Other Garden 
employes who have entered the military service recently are 
Mr. Adam Huber and Mr. C. MeGovern. 
The 54th annual convention of the Society of American 
Florists and Ornamental Horticulturists was in session in 
St. Louis at the Moolah Temple, August 20-22. The mem- 
bers and their wives were guests of the Garden the evening 
of August 22, when a supper was served outdoors. 
Recent visitors to the Garden include Captain A. R. Davis, 
of the Coast Artillery, U. S. Reserves, formerly Research 
Assistant at the Garden; Professor C. A. Shull, Associate 
Professor of Plant Physiology and Genetics, University of 
Kansas; Dr. A. L. Bakke, Assistant Professor of Botany, 
Iowa State College; and Ensign Henry Schmitz, of the 
Naval Reserves, formerly Rufus J. Lackland Fellow. 
Of the former Garden pupils, Mr. Clarence Pedlow has 
accepted a position as Instructor in Horticulture at the Agri- 
cultural and Engineering College, Raleigh, N. C.; Mr. Carl 
Giebel is now Sergeant in the Engineers Corps, stationed at 
Chattanooga, Tenn.; Mr. Robert Mitchell has enlisted in the 
Navy and is now at the Great Lakes Training Station; Mr. 
N.S. Philippi is in an army railroad camp in Washington, 
laying out roads through the forests; Private P. A. Kohl 
has last been heard from in Tours, France; Sergeant George 
Pedlow is on a furlough behind the lines, after having been 
in the thick of the fight at Chateau Thierry. 
STATISTICAL INFORMATION FOR JUNE- 
AUGUST, 1918 
GARDEN ATTENDANCE: 
TOcds Tuer Of. VigItOTe IR OUNG: i 22,486 
Total numer or visitors Mm UUuly oe oe Vi oe EO SBS 
Total Bomoer Or VISILOIe McCAUPIBt ee ae ee ee 19,278 
PLANT ACCESSIONS: 
Total number of plants and seeds donated in June......... 73 
Total number of plants and seeds donated in July... ... is 400 
Total number of plants collected in July................. 15 
PLANT DISTRIBUTION : 
Total number of plants distributed in exchange in July.... 403 
