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to grow even the more common deciduous trees and shrubs at the main 

 site of the Missouri Botanical Garden, which is almost in the heart of the 

 City of St. Louis. Practically no evergreens will stand the smoke and gases 

 of this locality, and many of the greenhouse plants are seriously affected. 



The new tract at Gray Summit is typical of eastern Missouri, and is 

 one of great natural beauty and of many diverse conditions. Along the 

 Meramec River at the south is a wide belt of table-land which is occasionally 

 overflowed by the river. To the north of this is a large tract of several 

 hundred acres of rugged topography mostly in steep bluffs and ravines, 

 heavily wooded, and with a great variety of plant life, the notable character- 

 istic being the numerous cedar growths among the deciduous types. North 

 of the bluff and ravine lands are some eight hundred acres of gently rolling 

 land containing several large timber tracts, the greater part of this area, 

 however, being devoted at the present time to agricultural uses. In pre- 

 paring a general plan of development for this tract, the probabilities that 

 it would some day be the main establishment of the Missouri Botanical 

 Garden have been kept in mind. The main horticultural and botanical 

 divisions into which the property will be portioned are as follows: 



1. The service and experimental garden areas. 



2. The pinetum for a conifer collection. 



3. The collections of exotic trees and shrubs. 



4. The areas devoted to North American trees and shrubs. 



5. The main display grounds, which will include the more formal 

 flower gardens and the naturalistic areas devoted especially to floral effects. 



6. The bluff and ravine lands which, it is expected, will be devoted 

 entirely to native plants. 



7. The lower river lands which will be devoted partly to native plants 

 and partly to nut orchards. 



In addition to these main divisions in area some four hundred acres 

 on the borders of the property are reserved for uses other than for botanical 

 garden purposes." 



EXPLANATION OF MAP 



1. Public conservatory range i. 



2. Water lily tanks. 

 Elevated railway station. 

 Power House No. I. 

 Bedford Park entrance. 

 Botanical Garden station. 



7. Mosholu Parkway entrance. 



8. Museum building. 



9. Pinetum. 



10. Flower gardens. 



11. Southern Boulevard entrance. 



12. Herbaceous Garden. 



13. Pergola. 



14. Morphological Garden. 



15. Economic Garden. 

 16.. Viticetum. 



17. Deciduous woodlands. 



18. Hemlock forest. 



19. Gorge of the Bronx River. 



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 38. 



Gorge Bridge. 



Waterfall. 



Boulder Bridge. 



Long Bridge. 



Lower lake. 



Water garden. 



Lake Bridge. 



Upper lake. 



Lakeside shelter. 



Fruticetum. 



Woodlawn Road entrance. 



Salicetum. 



North Bridge. 



Bronx River. 



River woodlands. 



North meadows. 



Bronx River Parkway entrance. 



Deciduous arboretum. 



Power House No. 2. 



