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Asclepias tuberosa, the butterfly-weed or Pleurisy-root, in dry spots 
fortlibed pomnog masses of bright orange-red flowers ; the plant grows 
from one to two feet high, and is one òf the showiest species of the 
genus. Red Birch (Betula nigra) of great size were noticed here 
and there in swampy spots. In the backwaters of the Tennessee River 
the yellow Lotus ( Nelumbium eu occurred in large quantities ; this 
stately and beautiful plant, even vear its native habitats, is difficult to 
abia and a charming Cassia, about a foot high with a wealth of lar ge 
yellow flowers; this is the Partridge Pea, Cassia Chamecrista. Here 
wamps, I noticed the * Large Cane," Arundinaria macrosperma making 
alise impenetrable ** canebrakes." 
THe Missourrt BOTANICAL GARDEN, 
Or, as it is more commonly called, Shaw’s Garden, founded und 
endowed by Henry Shaw, an Eng glishma n, who went to America in 
1819, and ‘settled at St. Louis, where he pra oan a fortune. 
. Shaw was a great lover of plants, and brought together a very con- 
siderable collection to which he freely admitted the public. About 1858 
he conceived and began to put into execution a plan for converting his 
garden into a scientifie institution, somewhat after the model of Kew. 
Mr. Shaw died in 1889, and lefi nearly the whole of his estate, appraised 
at about a million and a third dollars, as an endowment for the garden. 
This endowment consists dios entirely i in real estate, some of whicli, 
in the business part of the Eo yields a large revenue ; but the greater 
part of the land is in the immediate — of the garden, and at 
present yields no income, ibbogh i in time it promises to produce a very 
large maintenance fund. U nder the wili of Mr. Shaw, the garden 1s 
tain rmits are given to photographers, but with the 
A" thata print of each negative taken shall be sent to the 
director, v. it th s rmission to publish or otherwise use it in case he should 
see fit io do An — experiment is now being tried in the 
tech edition of nere, ‘The trustees have established six 
scholarships of four med ARAS 1 for pupils who have passed a pre- 
liminary x sco agen to the satisfaction of the director ; these jim. are 
paid a sufficient sum to cover their board, and they are all lodged 
cops sois have the use of a reading room, containing the prineipal 
xt books on gardening and the leading eurrent American as well as 
) English ae other foreign horticultural periodicals. During the first 
year of their apprenticeship the pupils must work at the puse duties 
of the garden nine or ten hours daily, exactly the same as the ee ar 
employés. After the first year, one half of each day is given to m 
work the remainder being devoted to class work, of which a oobi 
thought out scheme has been p ublished by the direc tor. Should, however, 
a pupil not show sufficient ability i in his work and studies to satisfy the 
director that it is ape for the scholarship to be held by him, 
he forfeits his claim to i 
