MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BULLETIN 47 
which he has grown himself, is invited to bring these to Shaw’s 
Garden and exhibit them at this show and compete for the 
prizes offered. 
There will be two classes of exhibits, one for amateurs and 
one for commercial growers. 
The different exhibits will include eut perennials and per- 
ennials in pots, eut annuals, annuals in pots, house plants, 
vegetables, flowering shrubs and trees, wild flowers, ete. 
Any one may exhibit as many different plants or cut flowers 
as he desires. There will be no charge for space or admis- 
sion, The object of this show is to create interest and en- 
thusiasm in plants and flowers in St. Louis and vicinity. 
Few realize that a great variety of plants can be grown with 
success in this region, and it is hoped that everybody will 
help make this show worth visiting. 
Every person desiring to exhibit should obtain an entry 
blank and exhibit tags for each variety to be shown. Exhibit 
blanks, tags, and premium list containing full information 
ean be obtained by writing to Mrs. E. J. Walsh, Chairman 
Entry Committee, 4349 Westminster Place, St. Louis, Mo. The 
entry blank, properly filled out, should be returned to Mrs. 
Walsh. The tags are to be retained by the exhibitor and se- 
curely fastened to the exhibit. 
Such shows have been held with great success in the east, 
and it is the intention, if enough interest is aroused, to make 
this spring flower show an annual event. The Missouri Bo- 
tanical Garden. is glad to co-operate in every way possible 
to make these exhibits a regular feature of the life of the city. 
NOTES. 
Mr.S. H. Essary, of the Tennessee Agricultural Experiment 
Station, spent a few days at the Garden recently, consulting 
the library. 
Mrs. Adele Lewis Grant, Teaching Fellow in the Henry Shaw 
School of Botany, lectured before Asclepios, the biological so- 
ciety of Washington University, March 23, on ‘‘The Economic 
Value of Some of Our Summer Birds.’’ 
Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Deusner, the former a graduate of the 
School for Gardening, have resumed the practice of landscape 
gardening in southern California, with an office at Pasadena. 
Mr. D. Miller and Mr. Adam Huber, orchid growers at the 
Garden, gave a talk on ‘‘Orchids,’? March 3, before the St. 
Louis Association of Gardeners. 
