112 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BULLETIN 
The thanks of the Garden are due the judges, Messrs. W. A. 
Manda, South Orange, N. J., and C. Tonseth, Portland, Ore- 
gon, as well as the amateur and commercial exhibitors for 
their splendid cooperation in making this the first dahlia 
show, such a success. 
NOTES 
Mr. G. H. Pring, Horticulturist to the Garden, spoke before 
the Junior Chamber of Commerce, October 12, on ‘‘What is 
an Orchid’’? 
Mr. E. E. Watson, of the Michigan Agricultural College, 
East Lansing, Michigan, recently visited the herbarium in 
connection with his studies of the genus Helianthus. 
Mr. L. P. Jensen, Arboriculturist to the Garden, spoke 
before the Webster Groves Nature Study Society, October 5, 
on ‘‘The Beautification of Home Grounds,’’ and on October 
24 he gave an illustrated lecture before the Women’s Club 
of Greenfield, Illinois, on ‘‘The Use of Native Materials in 
Ornamental Planting.’’ 
Dr. Edgar Anderson, head of the School for Gardening, 
conducted a group of boys from the Bellefontaine Farms on 
a field trip on the afternoon of October 10, and in the evening 
he spoke before another group at the same institution on 
‘‘Blower Forms.’’ 
Mr. G. H. Pring, Horticulturist to the Garden, has recently 
given the lecture ‘‘Collecting Orchids in South America’’ 
before the following audiences: St. Louis Landscape Associa- 
tion, at the American Hotel, October 8; Society of Sigma Xi, 
in the lecture room at the Garden, October 15; Clifton 
Heights Presbyterian Church, October 18; Missouri State 
Florists’ Association at Sedalia, October 25. 
The Mail Advertising Service Association of North America 
visited the Garden by moonlight on the evening of October 
22. Temporary lights were placed in the palm house and 
in the floral display house. Owing to the fact that business 
sessions occupied the entire day, this was the only chance 
that the out-of-town delegates had to visit the Garden, and 
about two hundred delegates took advantage of this unusual 
opportunity. 
The Trustees’ banquet, given in honor of the visiting dele- 
gates of the Florists’ Telegraph Delivery Association, was 
held at the Chase Hotel on the evening of Wednesday, Octo- 
ber 10, about seven hundred being in attendance. President 
