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THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE OF AMERICA. 
paying taxes on all its revenue-producing property 
and only indirectly being associated with Washington 
University, through the graduate school of botany. 
The garden as it now exists is the development of 
The Chrysanthemum Garden in the Missouri Botanical Garden 
Glass Range — An Interesting Spot When in Bloom. 
the private garden of Mr. Henry Shaw, who came to 
this country from England in 1818 and soon after 
settled in St. Louis. Acquiring a fortune within about 
twenty years, Mr. Shaw devoted the larger part of 
the remaining fifty years of his life to the enlarge- 
ment and management of his garden, which, although 
freely opened to the public, remained his private prop- 
erty until his death. Seeking the advice of such men 
as Dr. George Englemann, Sir William and Sir Joseph 
Hooker, and Professor Asa Gray, Mr. Shaw, in a will, 
remarkable for its breadth and farsightedness, left] 
to a self-perpetuating board of trustees the adminis- 
tration of his property and, through a director, the 
management of the garden which he himself desig- 
nated as the Missouri Botanical Garden. 
It may truly be said that practically all the various 
aspects of the work of this garden at the present time, 
whether they be scientific, educational, or aesthetic, 
were conceived by Mr. Shaw and provided for in a 
very definite manner by his will. As funds have be- 
come available, various aspects of the work have 
been enlarged and it is possible that in some respects 
the development has proceeded further than Mr. 
Shaw imagined possible, but the germ of the idea may 
be found in his will and had he lived to the present 
time it seems more than likely that his own manage- 
ment would have produced practically the institution 
as it now exists. 
In addition to the ordinary landscape treatment of 
such a garden, including the usual plantations of 
trees, hardy shrubs, and flower beds, there are also 
special outdoor collections comprising such features 
as the so-called "North American tract" in which are 
included a systematic arrangement of a considerable 
number of plants hardy in the vicinity of St. Louis ; 
a small arboretum ; a medicinal garden ; a large Ital- 
ian garden, laid out on strictly formal lines ; a so- 
called "Linnean garden," which takes its name from 
one of the older greenhouses, called by Mr. Shaw the 
"Linnean house," and which because it is bounded on 
three sides by a wall, is patterned after some of the 
English gardens; a rose garden; an economic garden, 
in which are displayed special collections of useful 
plants, such as rice, peanuts, tobacco, sugar cane, 
cotton, farm crops of various sorts, examples of vines, 
hedge plants, annuals and perennials suitable for 
growing in the vicinity of St. Louis ; bee plants, herbs, 
small fruits and anything which can serve as a demon- 
stration to the public of what may be accomplished 
in the growing of useful and ornamental plants. 
Within the last three years about 100,000 square 
feet of display greenhouses have been added, within 
which are maintained permanent collections of palms, 
economic plants, ferns, desert plants, cycads, orchids, 
etc. There is a floral display-house, 300x50 feet, 
where a continuous flower show is maintained from 
October to July. This house is admirably adapted for 
the purpose and probably nowhere else in the country 
does the public have an opportunity for seeing such 
an exhibition of blooming plants. Next spring this 
house is to be devoted to a typical Shakespearean gar- 
The Palm Garden Under Glass, with Its Winding Paths. Giving 
Opportunity to Study the Plants at Close Range. 
den with beds, hedges, trellises, fountains, garden fur- 
niture, and plants mentioned by Shakespeare, and will 
duplicate as nearly as possible the Elizabethan garden 
of three hundred years ago. 
