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11.  View. Tulip beds in snow. Looking east. Main Gate. Wall. Houses across Tower Grove Ave.

View of Tulip beds in snow, looking east. Main Gate, wall, and houses across Tower Grove Ave. visible. Follows 82-0243. 



1904

12.  Open Sunday at the Garden.

Open Sunday at the Garden. Streetcars on Tower Grove Ave. with people streaming from the Main Gate to the cars. 



1902

13.  Henry Shaw in his carriage (at entrance to Park)

Henry Shaw in his carriage at entrance to Tower Grove Park. 




14.  Spring show of the Garden Club of St. Louis on lower level of Floral Display House.

Spring show of the Garden Club of St. Louis on lower level of Floral Display House. Ladies and gentlemen viewing the scale models of landscaped buildings. Hermann von Schrenk at second table in white shirt, no jacket. (Mr. A. E. Brooker possibly standing next to him.) 



1923

15.  Power lawn mower. First power mower in the Garden. Gasoline driven, water cooled.

The first power mower in the Missouri Botanical Garden. The mower was gasoline driven and water cooled. 1- 7x5 print. 



1918

16.  Children on Lily Pads in Tower Grove Park.

Children on Lily Pads in Tower Grove Park. 



1906

17.  Acer dasycarpum on Floral Avenue.

Approach to Garden. Acer Dasycarpum lining Floral Avenue before the Great Cyclone of 1896 destroyed them. Floral Ave. was later named Flora Place after the development of the Shaw neighborhood began in 1897. 



1891

18.  St. Louis World's Fair. Carpet bedding in front of Festival Hall.

 



1904

19.  St. Louis World's Fair.

Looking southeast towards Festival Hall from the west wing of the Cascades. Notice the system of carpet bedding which is most complete in blending of colors and design. 3 5x7 in. prints. 



1904

20.  St. Louis World's Fair.

Effective banking of plants at the south-east corner of the Varied Industries Building. 2 5x7 in. prints. 



1904

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