130 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BULLETIN 
13, 1858, “if possible, my dear Sir, by all means get the 
deficient labels to them; perhaps the cost would be consider- 
able, but then what an advantage to have them complete. I 
should not regret the expense—it could not be done prob- 
ably in St. Louis except by yourself and then you will be 
otherwise occupied. The list of books has my best atten- 
tion. . . . I have all Loudon’s works except his Gardeners’ 
Magazines 1st and 2nd series which I should very much like 
to have. They contain valuable information to persons like 
myself devoted to horticulture and planting.”’ 
The next letter,1 dated Ma 18, 1858, refers again to the 
Bernhardi herbarium: “TI enbiutk with due deference to the 
A Pa of yourself and learned friends as to labeling the 
Plants of the Bernhardi herbarium... . Am now vigorously 
at work on the building of the Hort. Bot. Missouriensis.” 
The details of the Garden, planting, ete., occupied most 
of Mr. Shaw’s time. In the letter quoted from previously, 
September 15, 1857, he speaks of the early wore done in 
the Garden: 
Plant houses, so that you see I am by no means idle. If I attempt 
too much at once, I should make a fatigue of a pleasure. The 
lant houses—say in 
1859. I intend to have everything substantial and elegant but on 
-@ small scale. I shall commence the ornamental planting next 
spring, the botanical arrangements afterwards. All this I am do- 
ing according to my own ideas gathered from horticultural works 
of Loudon, McIntosh, ete—no one here can give me the least in- 
formation. How can I obtain dried specimens of seeds, fruits 
things we could have. ...I take a great and increasing pleasure 
in my undertaking and am devoting myself almost entirely to it 
of my Tower Grove estate and send a copy to Sir Wm. Hooker for 
his inspection and advice,” 
In the letter of January 13, 1858, also previously quoted 
from, he writes more of the work done in the Garden: 
“T am employed every day in my great undertaking—I may 
say every hour in the day. Good and substantial stone and brick 
drains are made in every part of the ground. The stone wall on 
* Engelmann letters, vol. S, in Mo. Bot. Gard. 
