Our readers must not forget that the annual meeting of this admirable association will be held this season at St. Louis, on the 20th of June. The meetings of the body have been annually growing in interest, and they prove to be very welcome to the communities in which they are held. Somehow the great body of American people have got to know of the profession only through dealers, or town florists, and they seem surprised to find so large a body of highly educated gentlemen among the profession. The leading newspapers vie with each other in giving full reports of the proceedings, and the general influence of the body is much greater than even the founder of the society anticipated. This season the meeting will be under the presidency of Lieutenant-Governor Norman J. Colman, of the St. Louis nurseries, and this means an unusually successful meeting. It is worth a trip to St. Louis by a horticulturist, to see the magnificent Missouri botanic gardens, and we have no doubt the warm-hearted proprietor, Henry Shaw, Esq., will do all he can to give the members of the society a welcome. We should not be surprised if Col. Colman should succeed in getting friends to go on at very little cost to the Rocky Mountains. His energy is fully equal to these pleasant undertakings.

One thing is certain, he will leave no stone unturned to make those who stay at home from this meeting eat their fingers with envy of those who have the good fortune to get away.