MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BULLETIN 131 
the west side and the brick wall coped with stone on the north 
sides are finished at a cost of 8,000 dollars. I am now proceed- 
ing with the entrance gate and lodge on the eastern front, which 
with the stone walls and iron railing I estimate to cost not much 
short of $10,000—all substantial and elegant. At the same time 
I shall commence the plant houses (150 feet) against the north 
wall (one of the compartments I intend for cacti and succulent 
plants), also the rosarium or sunk parterre, which together with 
the plant houses will cost about $5,000. These buildings with 
some planting of trees and shrubs and fencing Tower Grove and 
Shaw Avenues and building two brick cottages will be my work 
for the present year, 1858. I enclose you a plan of the garden 
and the lands intended to endow the same, in amount more than 
600 acres. ...I1 feel quite competent to the building of plant 
houses suited to this climate, as regards construction, heating and 
ventilation, theoretically from books and six years’ experience in 
my private garden. . . . I have sent plans to Prof. Gray and Sir 
W. Hooker, and with many thanks for your pains and exertions.” 
Dr. Engelmann returned to St. Louis in 1858 and took 
an active interest in the Garden until his death. He like- 
wise interested Dr. Asa Gray in the project, and in 1859 
Dr. Gray wrote,! saying, “Shaw has just written and I have 
replied expressing a lively interest in his projected estab- 
lishment and offering my best services if he requires them 
in the way of advice or suggestion.” 
The gateway was erected in 1858 from a design of George 
I. Barnett.2. The museum and library building was finished 
in 1860, and the Bernhardi herbarium, the library, and 
many things collected by Dr. Engelmann® in Europe were 
put in place. The Bernhardi collection consisted of approx- 
imately 70,000 specimens. At Dr. Gray’s and Dr. Engel- 
mann’s suggestion, August Fendler was employed as a sort 
of curator in the Garden and museum.* e began work 
for Mr. Shaw on October 12, 1860, at $1.00 per day, and 
worked for him about a year and a half, according to Mr. 
Shaw’s private cash book. His chief work seems to have 
been the arrangement of the Bernhardi, Riehl, and other 
collections in the museum. 
According to the plans adopted in 1858, the Garden was 
divided into three large divisions, containing about 60 acres 
altogether :? ; 
“1st, The Garden proper, containing the plant houses for tropical 
and other plants requiring protection, the herbaceous ground with 
plants scientifically arranged and named, and the cacti in the 
north end of the Garden next the wall. 
“2nd, The Fruticetum for shrubbery and experimental fruit 
gardens. 
1 Engelmann letters, vol. G, in Mo. Bot. Gard. 
¥ . Guide to Missouri Botanical Gardens, by Henry Shaw. 
® Trans. Acad. Sci. St. Louis, vol. 1, p. 316. 1857. 
‘Letters from Dr. Engelmann to Dr. Parry, Jan. 24, 1861. 
