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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,...
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