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have brought requests for further information from most of 
the surrounding states, and the practice of the leading film 
companies of putting the various flower shows into their 
movie circuits, both in this country and abroad, has undoubt- 
edly brought the Garden to the attention of people who never 
heard of it before. 
In so far as has been possible the Garden has prepared 
special exhibits calculated to be of interest to visitors attend- 
ing the more important conventions in the city. For example, 
there was provided, on the occasion of the meeting of the 
American Medical Association last May, an exhibit of old 
herbals, accompanied by a talk on the subject to representa- 
tives of the medical libraries; a special demonstration of the 
diseases of plants calculated to be of interest to medical men; 
and a miniature reproduction of the old Chelsea Physic Gar- 
den. The latter was of special interest, since it was laid out 
and planted entirely by the disabled soldiers working in the 
School for Gardening. This garden, which contains practi- 
eally all of the medicinal plants that can be grown success- 
fully out of doors in St. Louis, will be retained as a perma- 
nent feature. Classes from the St. Louis School of Pharmacy 
now make regular visits to this garden, where they find many 
valuable and interesting object lessons to pharmacists. The 
large number of exotie plants of both medicinal and economic 
importance growing in the greenhouses also attract much at- 
tention from these students. 
Still another means of calling the attention of the public to 
the Garden has been through the two special flower shows 
held in St. Louis during the past year. One of these, put on 
by the St. Louis Garden Club and held in the floral display 
house, attracted some 28,000 visitors in two days, and there 
can be no question that the continuation of such an annual 
show will do much towards increasing in St. Louis the devel- 
cpment of a love for gardens and the consequent beautifying 
of the city and its surroundings. The fall flower show, held 
at the Coliseum under the auspices of the professional florists, 
gardeners, and horticulturists of St. Louis, as well as the 
St. Louis Garden Club, was the most suecessful show of the 
kind ever held in St. Louis. The Missouri Botanical Garden 
exhibited chrysanthemums, as well as their special collection 
of plant curiosities, and the new white water-lily, Nymphaea 
‘‘Mrs. George H. Pring,’’ was awarded a special medal by 
