PUBLIC BOTANICAL GARDENS 
THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN, ST. LOUIS 
MO. 
Location — Flora Boulevard and Tower Grove Avenue. 
This Garden is open to the public, without charge, every day 
in the year with the exception of New Year’s, Fourth of July, 
Labor Day and Christmas; week-days from 8:00 A.M. until 
one-half hour after sunset; Sundays from 2:00 P.M. until 
sunset. 
Botanical Garden, St. Louis, Mo. 
.'\bout 11,000 species of plants are growing in the Garden, the 
hardy forms, numbering about 5,000 are distributed in the vari- 
ous outdoor collections. The remaining species, approximating 
6,000 in number , obtained from all parts of the world, are mostly 
tropical and subtropical forms and are displayed in the various 
conservatories. Outdoor features of snecial interest are the 
water gardens, rose garden, perennial garden, formal or Italian 
garden, the knolls, the economic garden, the North American 
tract, the arboretum, the rock and wild flower gardens, and the 
test garden ; in the latter new varieties of plants are tried out 
each year in order to prove their general adaptability to the 
climate of St. Louis. The principal collections housed in the 
conservatories are the palms, economics, cycads, succulents, 
ferns, aroids, tropical fruits, bromeliads, orchids, ericaceous 
and coniferous plants. 
Additional features of the Garden are a library of over 87,000 
volumes devoted to botany and allied subjects; a herbarium of 
about 862,000 specimens ; research laboratories and experimen- 
tal greenhouses where graduate work in botany, plant pathol- 
ogy, and plant physiology are carried on ; a school for garden- 
ing; a monthly bulletin of popular information on subjects of 
general interest; a scientific quarterly devoted to the publica- 
tion of the results of the researches of the staff and graduate 
students. The affairs of the Garden are administered by a 
Board of Trustees, originally designated by the will of Henry 
Shaw, the founder of the Garden, the immediate direction of 
the Garden being vested in a Director, appointed by the Board 
of Trustees. The Garden is supported entirely by funds left 
by its founder and receives no income from the city or state. 
Guides will be provided for members of the Garden Club, if 
requested. Address: George T. Moore, Director, Missouri 
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