Henry Shaw's Victorian landscapes : the Missouri Botanical Garden and Tower Grove Park
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Grove, Carol.
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Library of American Landscape History.
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LC Subjects
Biographies.
Botanizers -- Missouri -- Saint Louis -- Biography.
Botany.
Missouri Botanical Garden -- History.
Shaw, Henry, -- 1800-1889.
Tower Grove Park (Saint Louis, Mo.) -- History.
OCLC Fast Subjects
Biographies
Botanizers
Botany
History
Missouri -- Saint Louis -- https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJrRkfvhKWVMB6FcBjD6rq
Missouri -- Saint Louis -- Tower Grove Park
Missouri Botanical Garden
Shaw, Henry, -- 1800-1889 -- https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJbxJf6PKVV9P77Kf7ppT3
Other Subjects
Biographies.
Biography
Botanical Garden of Tartu University
Botanique.
Botanischer Garten
Botanistes amateurs -- Missouri -- Saint Louis -- Biographies.
Botany
Botany -- history
botany.
collective biographies.
International Legume Conference
Missouri
Saint Louis (Mo.) -- Missouri Botanical Garden.
Shaw, Henry (Kaufmann)
Shaw, Henry -- 1800-1889
Tower Grove Park (Saint Louis, Missouri) -- Histoire.

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xxii, 232 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-212) and index.
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"At the age of eighteen, Henry Shaw (1800-1889) left his home in Sheffield, England, to import manufactured goods from St. Louis on the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers. Two decades of financial success allowed him to relinquish his business operations and take up more genteel pursuits." "Over the next three decades, Shaw transformed his estate, Tower Grove, into one of the nation's leading botanical gardens, Laid out according to gardenesque principles, which emphasized individual specimens, the plantings came from many sources and included species newly discovered by the era's great plant hunters. Shaw's Garden (now the Missouri Botanical Garden) opened in 1859 to legions of wildly enthusiastic visitors."
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"Carol Grove chronicles Shaw's remarkable story, from his early love of plants to his rising social conscience and his determined quest to create a place of unsurpassed beauty and distinction that would educate and thereby improve American citizens. Beautifully illustrated with contemporary and historical photographs, this volume offers an insightful cultural history of Shaw's landscapes, among the most important examples of the gardenesque in America."--Jacket.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Grove, C. (2005). Henry Shaw's Victorian landscapes: the Missouri Botanical Garden and Tower Grove Park . University of Massachusetts Press, in association with Library of American Landscape History.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Grove, Carol. 2005. Henry Shaw's Victorian Landscapes: The Missouri Botanical Garden and Tower Grove Park. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, in association with Library of American Landscape History.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Grove, Carol. Henry Shaw's Victorian Landscapes: The Missouri Botanical Garden and Tower Grove Park Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, in association with Library of American Landscape History, 2005.

Harvard Citation (style guide)

Grove, C. (2005). Henry shaw's victorian landscapes: the missouri botanical garden and tower grove park. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, in association with Library of American Landscape History.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Grove, Carol. Henry Shaw's Victorian Landscapes: The Missouri Botanical Garden and Tower Grove Park University of Massachusetts Press, in association with Library of American Landscape History, 2005.

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