SEVENTH ANNUAL RErORT OF THE DIIIECTOK. 21 
The annual events provided for in Mr. Shaw's will have 
taken place as follows : the preaching of a sermon on the 
wisdom and goodnes-; of God as shown in the growth of 
flowers, fruit>, and other productions of the vegetable 
kingdom; the sixth banquet to the Trustees of the Garden 
and their invited guests; the -ixth bancjuet to the gardeners 
of the in-titution and invilod florists, nurf^erymen and 
market ganlener> ; and tho award of premiums or prizes 
at a flower show or exhibition held in 8t. Louis. 
The flower sermon was prt^aciied in Christ Church 
Cathedral, St. Louis, on the morning of May 19th, by Rt. 
Rev. W. C. Doane, Bishop of Albany. 
The Trustees' bancjuet was given at the Planter-;' House, 
on the evening of May 17th, and was pn sided o\er by 
Chancellor W. S. Chaplin, of Washington Tniversity, 92 
gentlemen representative of St. Louis or distinguished as 
teachers or investigators in various parts of the country 
being present. 
Speeches appropriate to the occasion ^vere made by 
President Henry Wade Rogers, of Northwestern Univer- 
sity, whose address is elsewhere })rinted in the Seventh 
Report, by direction of the Board; Hon. Smith P. Gait, 
of St. Louis; Professor W, O. Atwater, of W^esleyan 
University; and Rev. Dr. J. W. Lee, of St. Louis. 
On the evening of the 14th of September, the sixth 
annual bantjuet to the gardeners of the institution, and 
invited florists, nurserymen, and market gardeners of St. 
Louis and vicinity, was given at the University Club, St. 
Louis. Covers were laid for one hundred persons, com- 
prising the gardeners andoflice staff of the Missouri Botan- 
ical Garden, several members of the Board of Trustees, a 
large number of commercial florists and market gardeners 
of the vicinity, a number of amateurs interc'-ted in gardening 
and home improvement, and representatives of the horti- 
cultural pre.-s and the horti<'ultural societies of Missouri 
and adjacent States. The Director of the Garden pre- 
sided, assisted by Professor J. C. Whitten, of the Univer- 
