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hundred — of Dendrobium Phalaenopsis, or the elephant 
moth orchid, which, at their height, will produce thousands 
of flowers, shading from white to pink and dark pink. Speci- 
mens of the beautiful blue moth orchid or Vanda coerulea 
will be intermixed with the others. This is one of the very 
few blue-flowering orchids coming to us from the East Indies, 
and its shadings are so varied that it seems impossible to 
get two alike. A miscellaneous collection of the lady slipper 
orchid or Cypripedium will also be shown, as well as many 
flowers of the more common lavender-flowered cattley orchid 
or Cattleya Trianaei. 
NOTES 
About 150 ladies in the National Coffee Roasters’ Asso- 
ciation party visited the Garden, November 10. 
Dr. James A. Blaisdell, President of Pomona College, 
Claremont, California, was a Garden visitor, November 8. 
Mr. Fred A. Grossart, who graduated from the Garden 
Course this September, is now Head Gardener at Valhalla 
Cemetery, St. Louis County. 
Mr. W. W. Ohlweiler, General Manager of the Garden, 
attended the Chicago Flower Show, November 9, and the 
Cleveland Flower Show, November 10 and 11, in the interest 
of the Garden. 
Recent visitors to the Garden include Dr. A. C. True, 
Director, States Relations Service, U. S. Department of Agri- 
- culture, on November 18, and Professor P. H. Rolfs, Director, 
Florida Agricultural Experiment Station, Gainesville, 
Florida, on November 19. 
The St. Louis Florist Club held their regular meeting in 
the uate lecture room of the Missouri Botanical Garden 
on Thursday, November 18. The most important business 
transacted was the decision to hold a flower show worthy of 
St. Louis in the spring of 1917. 
The Graduate Club of Washington University met at the 
Garden on Sunday, November 14. After the usual business 
session, a tour was made of the ee and grounds, par- 
ticular interest being manifested in the Chrysanthemum 
Show and in the collection of orchids. 
The annual Gardeners’ Banquet, provided for in Mr. 
Shaw’s will, was held November 19 at the Liederkranz Club. 
Mr. John K. M. L. Farquhar of Boston, President of the 
Massachusetts Horticultural Society, and Past President of 
the Society American Florists and Ornamental Horticul- 
turists was the speaker of the evening. 
