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MINNEAPOLIS (2) 
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA BOTANIC GARDEN 
Area: 3 acres. Administered by the Department of Botany 
chiefly as a source of study material. 
NORTHFIELD 
CARLETON COLLEGE ARBORETUM 
Established: 1926. Area: 350 acres. 
Superintendent: D. B. Stewart (1937). 
Open free daily. Source of income: Gifts. 
ST. CLOUD 
STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE 
A letter of December 26, 1934 from the Department of Biology, 
State Teachers College, St. Cloud, states as follows: 
“Our State Teachers College has acquired about a square mile 
of islands in the Mississippi river near the College. In addition 
we own one hundred and twenty acres which formerly was a gran- 
ite quarry. We would like very much to establish (1) a botanical 
garden and tree plantings on the quarry site and (2) an arboretum 
on the islands.” 
“ More than 25,000 evergreen seedlings have been obtained from 
the state nurseries and placed in transplant rows.” (Letter of 
September 4, 1938 from W. C. Croxton.) 
Missouri 
ST..LOUIS 
Missourt BoTANICAL GARDEN 
Established: The grounds locally known as “ Shaw’s Gardens,” 
were opened to thé public in 1859, but its formal opening as a 
botanical institution took place upon the organization of the 
trust, in the fall of 1889. Founded by Henry Shaw, of St. 
Louis, who gave the original building and planted grounds, and 
the initial endowment. 
Area: City Garden, 75 acres; Arboretum, Gray Summit, Mo. 
(near St. Louis), 1600 acres. 
