BOTANICAL GARDENS 



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In an article in the July-August (1926) edition of Parks and Recreation, 

 Mr. Noyes says: 



"A little over a year ago the Missouri Botanical Garden purchased a 

 tract of land of some thirteen hundred acres, located at Gray Summit, 

 Missouri, which is approximately thirty-seven miles west of the city limits 

 of St. Louis. As is well known, it is getting to be more and more difficult 



PRFLIM1NARY PLAN -<g* EXTENSION <y ARBORETUM 



MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 



PLATE No. 372 



PRELIMINARY PLAN OF THE NEW SITE OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN, 



GRAY SUMMIT, MISSOURI 



(Design by John Noyes, Landscape Architect for the Missouri Botanical Garden. 

 Plate furnished by Parks and Recreation.) 



