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continent, lie saw what the world of pleasure offers to those who are 

 able to pay for it. But he returned to the land of his adoption, deter- 

 mined to make for himself there surroundings as nearly as possible 

 comparable with those of his own countrymen; and he so far succeeded 

 that the modest little garden with which he surrounded his country 

 house in the suburbs of St. Louis came in time to be the pleasantest 

 of the resorts of the residents of that city, and the one place to which 

 they were all sure to wish to take their visiting friends. 



If he had stopped with this, he would have caused his name to be 

 long remembered by his fellow-citizens, for he did not hold his home 

 as his own exclusively, but admitted to the enjoyment of its beauties 

 any who wished to share them with him. But while his grounds were 

 developing and growing in beauty, he learned, through the helpful 

 acquaintance of Sir William Hooker and of his own fellow townsman, 



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Dr. George Engelmann, that it might be possible to perpetuate his 

 name in a surer and more lasting manner, and to cause the garden 

 that he had planned and planted to become of use in the world of 

 science and to grow in such usefulness through the centuries, while 

 losing nothing of its beauty and attractiveness to those who cared to 

 enjoy without using it. In 1859 he secured the passage of an act 

 by the legislature of Missouri which empowered him to deed or will, 

 as he might elect, such of his property as he wished, to trustees for 

 the maintenance of "a botanical garden for the cultivation and propa- 

 gation of plants, flowers, fruit and forest trees, and for the dissemina- 

 tion of the knowledge thereof among men, by having a collection 

 thereof easily accessible; by the establishment of a museum and library 

 in connection therewith, as also by establishment of public lectures 

 and instruction upon botany and its allied sciences, when it shall be 



