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THE
POPULAR SCIENCE
MONTHLY
JANUARY, 1903.
THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. |
By Professor WILLIAM TRELEASE,
DIRECTOR OF THE GARDEN.
IN 1840, Henry Shaw, an Englishman who had settled in St. Louis in 1819, retired from business with the—for that time—large fortune of a quarter of a million dollars. Revisiting the land of his
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Henry Shaw.
birth, he saw how Englishmen enjoy the fruits of labor such as that by which he had acquired this large sum of money. Traveling on the