THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 



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deemed advisable in furtherance of the general objects of said trust; 

 and . . . for the purpose of maintaining a perpetual fund for the 

 support and maintenance of said garden, its care and increase, and 

 the museum, library and instruction connected therewith." 



As the new and larger plans shaped themselves in Mr. Shaw's mind, 

 they began to take form on the grounds, and a flower garden, arbor- 

 etum, and fruticetum Loudon's main parts of a garden were quickly 

 laid out and planted, and separated and fronted by rubble walls in the 

 outermost of which a severe but rather impressive gate-house, bearing 



the chosen name of the establishment Missouri Botanical Garden 



was built. Xot far from his house, Mr. Shaw put a small fireproofed 

 building, over the door of which the inscription 'Botanical Museum 



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The Museum Buildim;. 



and Library" was cut in the stone, and in which, largely through the 

 interest of Dr. Engelmann, were soon installed a small but well chosen 

 collection of books, and some 60,000 specimens of plants, consisting 

 of the herbarium of the then lately deceased Professor Johann Jakob 

 Bernhardi and a small local collection made by Eiehl. The arrange- 

 ment of these specimens, Mr. Shaw once informed me, was entrusted 

 to 'a young man named Fendler,' whose name was already known as 

 that of an expert collector and destined to be made still better known 

 by subsequent work in the tropics. On the occasion of my introducing 

 to him a gentleman who was making a study of the flora of Missouri 

 and who wished to consult the Eiehl collection, Mr. Shaw expressed 

 the regret with which he observed that though the flower garden was 



