THE GRAPHIC. 
f the place, its peculiar irresistible charm and 
re to be attributed to the unending number 
.plendid trees in marrelous variety. On 
m and size, planted 
seems, just 
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Just behind the pedestal, and a dosen paces from It, 
there stands a beautifully-grown little mulberry tree, 
round which there Is perpetuated a fascinating remtnla- 
cence. It was In the March of 1880 that Adelaide Nellson, 
“the incomparable Juliet,” visited St. Louis for the last 
stood before it. walked swu. u, 
rreecu it irom mis side and that, and, nodding her 
head, thoughtfully exclaimed: “ Old fellow, you have 
done a great deal for me-a great deal for me r Asked 
what she thought of it, she declared that she had “ae 
every Shakespeare - 
- Gladly she consented, and, 
f a short distance from the pedestal, she turned 
uer utue boot-heel in the sod. “ Plant it here," she 
said. But untimely fate prevented her from ever again 
seeing the shores of England; so, after her death, Mr. 
Shaw planted, on the spot she marked, a slip from one 
of his own choicest mulberries, and now it is growing 
up into a stately tree, a living monument to the play¬ 
wright and the player, while a marble tablet at its foot 
Several hundred yards to the east, looking westward 
down the boulevard toward the Shakespeare, rises the 
Imposing Humboldt—of the three great masterpieces 
probably the masterpiece, the crowning tribute to the 
sculptor’s skill. In every lineament of countenance 
and detail of form and dress is faultless accuracy, and in 
the stately, restful poise of all the features can be read 
at once the thoughtful reverie of the philosopher, the 
keen observance of the naturalist, and the broad con 
temptation of the traveler, as if he stood upon a mount- 
landscape. The niece of Humboldt saw the‘figure 
Munich, and in thanking Shaw for the high honor to 
her family, declared that neither Europe nor America 
had done anything for the great naturalist comparable 
to it. On the front face of the pedestal is the simple 
The opposite face bears the inscription: “In honor of 
the most accomplished t-aveler of this or any other 
age. Erected by Henry Shaw in I8T8.” Of the other 
two sides, one bears in relief a view in the valley of 
borazo, whose lofty summit the dauntless explorer was 
1 the tree-bordered avenue, before the eastern 
n all its power the mighty figure of 
Hedged the finest monumental statue 
the world has ever reared to him. It stands with firmly- 
planted feet, like a mariner upon a storm-tossed deck, 
i hand an unrolled chart, one limb advanced from 
l the west, where lay the goal 
drations. Below, two reliefs , 
| prow of the “Santa Maria,” and La Salle 
— —-sippi; a third bears the words: “The 
XIXth Century to Christopher Columbus;" and the 
1 To the discoverer of a new world!” 
Thus these three memorials have bscome a vital part 
f the broad educational system embraced in the gar- 
en and park, for practically garden and park are one 
a purpose as well as origin. The park’s usefulness, it 
• intended, shall «-“ - 
skilled musicians render a carefully 
surrounding grove and carriage 
