THE 



POPULAR SCIENCE 



MONTHLY. 



JANUARY, 1903. 



THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 



By Professor WILLIAM TRELEASE, 



DIRECTOR OF THE GARDEN. 



IN 1840, Henry Shaw, an Englishman who had settled in St. Louis 

 in 1819, retired from business with the for that time large 

 fortune of a quarter of a million dollars. Revisiting the land of his 



Henry Shaw. 



birth, he saw how Englishmen enjoy the fruits of labor such as that 

 by which he had acquired this large sum of money. Traveling on the 

 vol. lxii. 13. 



