170 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BULLETIN 
NOTES 
The orchid show is now being assembled in the floral dis- 
play house. As last year, it is being arranged to represent a 
South American forest. 
The December 8 number of the Southern Florist contains a 
reprint of the article on ‘‘Hybrid Nymphaeas’’ from the 
October BULLETIN. 
Dr. Hermann von Schrenk, Pathologist to the Garden, has 
been appointed consulting member of the Central Committee 
on Lumber Standards recently brought about by the Seere- 
tary of Commerce and Labor. 
Mr. G. H. Pring, Horticulturist to the Garden, has been 
elected first vice-president of the St. Louis Association of 
Gardeners, and Mr. C. McGovern, in charge of outside floral 
displays, has been elected second vice-president. 
The chrysanthemums used in the November floral display 
were distributed after the show to the local hospitals by the 
Book and Flower Guild. Some of the flowers were also used 
in the making of about 2000 boutonnieres for the Saturday 
and Sunday Hospital collections. 
