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he saw that he could leave here a monument which would 
endure forever, 2 monument which would be an ornament 
to the city and a blessing to its people, which would refine 
and elevate everybody who came in contact with it, he 
determined that that should be the work of his life; and 
that work has been most nobly done. Where can we find 
another such a man, with such a history, who has done so 
much for any city, aye, so much for any country, as Henry 
Shaw has done? What other city, what other state, what 
other nation has had a Henry Shaw, leaving so munificent 
a donation, leaving such a grand work for humanity? It 
is not simply the masculine members of the human family 
that enjoy it, though I know that all those of refined feel- 
ings do, but it is especially that other portion of the human 
family, our wives and our daughters, who will remember 
with gratitude and devotion the work which Henry Shaw 
has done for them. 
Not only here in the city will his example be remembered, 
but by all those who visit the garden, from whatever state 
or nation they come. It will have a most telling and im- 
portant effect throughout this whole Western country ; 
because here is an example, a model, which many men — 
and I hope there may be hundreds and thousands of them — 
will pattern after in a limited manner, if not in greater 
degree. This example will be followed. It will have its 
influence for good. Our city does not begin to compare 
with many other cities in the ornamentation of private 
grounds and private residences. We can almost count upon 
the fingers of our hands the number of beautiful residences, 
the grounds around which have been properly laid out in 
landscape style. We may go to Cincinnati, to Cleveland, 
to Boston, to Philadelphia, to almost any other city, and find 
hundreds and thousands of residences with beautiful 
grounds about them, ornamented in the highest style of 
landscape gardening, but I am sorry to say they are not to be 
found here. I wish that I could talk to every house owner 
in the city of St. Louis to-night and urge upon him the 
