72 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 
Professor Trelease’s eminence in botany, he would have 
had a worthy object. 
Now this is what I wish to plead for: that you may give — 
that you all give — your assistance in keeping up the proper 
relation between the men who make the research and the 
men who apply the facts that are discovered. You know 
it has been said that no discovery is complete until it has 
been applied. The scientific men can assist you, you can 
assist the scientific men. 
I wish before I close, —I know it is not morning yet, but 
morning will come by and bye, —I wish hefore I close tocau- 
tion you in one respect. It is a tendency everywhere when - 
some one man has stepped forward and done a great thing, 
made a great gift for any kind of a purpose, for all the rest of 
us to hang back and give him all the credit and do none of 
the work ourselves. I think there is a tendency here, since 
you are all human I think there may be a tendency here, 
for you to consider that Mr. Shaw has done all that botany 
needs. Let me say to you that if Mr. Shaw’s benefaction 
were ten times as large as it is every dollar of it might be 
worthily expended in the study of botany, in the collection 
of herbariums, in the establishment of means of widening 
human knowledge. It is, then, a worthy thing that Mr. 
Shaw has done. It will be a worthy thing in you if you 
support his ideas and help to broaden them and extend 
them to other men. I feel that it was a wise thing in him 
also to establish this garden right here in St. Louis. You 
have here everything favorable for the extension of botan- 
ical knowledge. You are centrally placed in the United 
States, you have a climate almost unequalled, you have a 
soil which seems to be inexhaustible to a man who has just 
come from that stony gift of God called New England. 
You have markets. Why, a year or two ago, when I was 
in Mexico, the one thing I found that looked like home was 
apples from St. Louis. The man who had those apples 
made a very bad speculation. The fact was, the people 
down in Mexico were not educated up to eating apples; but 
