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Missouri Botanical Garden
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U.S. National Historic Landmark District

A view of Seiwa-en, the largest Japanese garden in North America
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Location	St. Louis, Missouri
Coordinates	38°36′45″North 90°15′35″Due west / 38.61250°N xc.25972°W / 38.61250; -xc.25972 Coordinates: 38°36′45″N 90°fifteen′35″W / 38.61250°N 90.25972°W / 38.61250; -90.25972
Built	1859
Architect	Multiple
Architectural style	Late Victorian
NRHP referenceNo.	71001065^[1]
Added to NRHP	November 19, 1971
Designated NHLD	December 8, 1976^[2]

A manicured garden of Victorian style plantings at the Missouri Botanical Garden

The Climatron greenhouse at the Missouri Botanical Garden simulates the climate of a rainforest for conservational and educational purposes.

The Missouri Botanical Garden is a botanical garden located at 4344 Shaw Boulevard in St. Louis, Missouri. It is also known informally as Shaw's Garden for founder and philanthropist Henry Shaw. Its herbarium, with more than 6.vi million specimens,^[3] is the 2d largest in North America, behind that of the New York Botanical Garden. The Index Herbariorum code assigned to the herbarium is MO ^[iv] and it is used when citing housed specimens.

History [edit]

The land that is currently the Missouri Botanical Garden was previously the state of businessman Henry Shaw.

Founded in 1859, the Missouri Botanical Garden is i of the oldest botanical institutions in the United States and a National Historic Landmark. Information technology is also listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

In 1983, the botanical garden was added as the fourth subdistrict of the Metropolitan Zoological Park and Museum District.

The garden is a center for botanical inquiry and science teaching of international repute, as well as an oasis in the city of St. Louis, with 79 acres (32 ha) of horticultural display. It includes a 14-acre (5.7 ha) Japanese strolling garden named Seiwa-en; the Climatron geodesic dome conservatory; a children'south garden, including a pioneer village; a playground; a fountain area and a water locking system, somewhat similar to the locking system at the Panama Culvert; an Osage camp; and Henry Shaw's original 1850 estate home. It is adjacent to Belfry Grove Park, another of Shaw's legacies.^[five]

For part of 2006, the Missouri Botanical Garden featured "Glass in the Garden", with glass sculptures by Dale Chihuly placed throughout the garden. Four pieces were purchased to remain at the gardens. In 2008 sculptures of the French artist Niki de Saint Phalle were placed throughout the garden. In 2009, the 150th anniversary of the garden was celebrated, including a floral clock display.

After twoscore years of service to the garden, Dr. Peter Raven retired from his presidential mail service on September 1, 2010. Dr. Peter Wyse Jackson replaced him as President.^[6]

Leaders of the garden [edit]

Henry Shaw (founder) until his decease in 1889
William Trelease, director, 1889 to 1912
George Thomas Moore, manager, 1912 to 1953
Edgar Anderson, managing director, 1954 to 1957
Frits Warmolt Went, managing director, 1958 to 1963
David Gates, manager, 1965 to 1971
Peter H. Raven, director, 1971 to 2006; president and managing director, 2006 to 2010
Peter Wyse Jackson, president, appointed 2010

Cultural festivals [edit]

The garden is a place for many annual cultural festivals, such equally the Japanese Festival and the Chinese Culture Days past the St. Louis Chinese Civilization Days Committee.^[vii] During this time, at that place are showcases of the culture'southward botanics as well equally cultural arts, crafts, music and food. The Japanese Festival features sumo wrestling, taiko drumming, koma-mawashi top spinning, and kimono fashion shows. The garden is known for its bonsai growing, which can exist seen all year round just is highlighted during the multiple Asian festivals.

Gardens [edit]

Major garden features include:

Tower Grove House (1849) and Herb Garden – Shaw'due south Victorian country house, designed by prominent local architect George I. Barnett in the Italianate mode
Victory of Scientific discipline over Ignorance – marble statue past Carlo Nicoli, a copy of the original (1859) by Vincenzo Consani in the Pitti Palace, Florence
Linnean Business firm (1882) – reputedly the oldest continually operated greenhouse w of the Mississippi River; originally Shaw's orangery, in the late 1930s converted to house mostly camellias
Gladney Rose Garden (1915) – circular rose garden with arbors
Climatron (1960) and Reflecting Pools – world's commencement geodesic dome greenhouse, designed by architect and engineer Thomas C. Howard of Synergetics, Inc; lowland rain woods with approximately 1500 plants
English Woodland Garden (1976) – aconite, azaleas, bluebells, dogwoods, hosta, trillium, and others below the tree canopy
Seiwa-en Japanese Garden (1977) – xiv-acre (five.7 ha) chisen kaiyu-shiki (wet strolling garden) with lawns and path set up around a 4-acre (1.half dozen ha) central lake, designed by Koichi Kawana; the largest Japanese Garden in Northward America
Grigg Nanjing Friendship Chinese Garden (1995) – designed by architect Yong Pan; features (gifts from sister metropolis Nanjing) a moon gate, lotus gate, pavilion, and Chinese scholar'south rocks from Lake Tai
Blanke Boxwood Garden (1996) – walled parterre with a fine boxwood collection
Strassenfest German Garden (2000) – flora native to Frg and Central Europe and a bust of botanist and Henry Shaw'southward scientific advisor George Engelmann (sculpted by Paul Granlund)
Biblical garden featuring date palm, pomegranate, fig and olive trees, caper, mint, citron and other plants mentioned in the Bible
Ottoman garden with water features and xeriscape

Popular civilization [edit]

Douglas Trumbull, the director of the 1972 science fiction classic motion picture Silent Running, stated that the geodesic domes on the spaceship Valley Forge were based on the Missouri Botanical Garden's Climatron dome.^[eight]

A yatsu-hashi bridge in the garden.
Site plan, equally of 1974–1977
Henry Shaw's mausoleum is located in the gardens.
A fountain
Function of the children'due south area
Part of the children's h2o play area

Butterfly Business firm [edit]

Missouri Botanical Garden too operates the Sophia M. Sachs Butterfly Firm in Chesterfield. The Butterfly Firm includes an 8,000-square-foot (740 k²) indoor butterfly solarium as well as an outdoor butterfly garden.

EarthWays Center [edit]

The EarthWays Center is a group at the Missouri Botanical Garden that provides resources on and educates the public about dark-green practices, renewable free energy, energy efficiency, and other sustainability matters.^[ix]

Shaw Nature Reserve [edit]

The Shaw Nature Reserve was started by the Missouri Botanical Garden in 1925 as a place to shop plants away from the pollution of the urban center. The air in St. Louis later cleared upward, and the reserve has connected to exist open to the public for enjoyment, research, and didactics ever since. The two,400-acre (9.7 kmⁱⁱ) reserve is located in Grey Peak, Missouri, 35 miles (56 km) abroad from the city.^[10]

The Plant Listing [edit]

The Constitute List is an Internet encyclopedia project to compile a comprehensive listing of botanical nomenclature, created by the Majestic Botanic Gardens, Kew, and the Missouri Botanical Garden.^[xi] The Plant List has 1,040,426 scientific institute names of species rank, of which 298,900 are accustomed species names. In improver, the list has 620 plant families and 16,167 plant genera.^[12]

Living Earth Collaborative [edit]

In September 2017 the Missouri Botanical Garden teamed up with the St. Louis Zoo and Washington University in St. Louis in a conservation effort known as the Living Earth Collaborative.^[13] The collaborative, run past Washington University scientist Jonathan Losos, seeks to promote further understanding of the ways humans can help to preserve the varied natural environments that allow plants, animals and microbes to survive and thrive.^[fourteen]

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Monsanto had donated $ten million to the Missouri Botanical Garden since the 1970s, which named its 1998 plant science facility the "Monsanto Eye".^[15] The centre has since been renamed to the "Bayer Heart" following Monsanto's acquisition by Bayer.^[sixteen]

Publications [edit]

Register of the Missouri Botanical Garden
Novon: A Periodical for Botanical Nomenclature

Meet too [edit]

List of botanical gardens and arboretums in the Us
Peter F. Stevens, a biologist working in the Missouri Botanical Garden
List of National Historic Landmarks in Missouri
National Register of Historic Places listings in St. Louis south and w of downtown

References [edit]

^ "National Register Data System". National Register of Celebrated Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
^ "Missouri Botanical Garden". National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. Archived from the original on March 1, 2009. Retrieved June 28, 2008.
^ "Herbarium". Missouri Botanical Garden. Retrieved October 16, 2017.
^ "Index Herbariorum". Steere Herbarium, New York Botanical Garden. Retrieved November 27, 2021.
^ "National Annals of Celebrated Places – Nomination Class" (PDF). Missouri Department of Natural Resource. Retrieved May 30, 2008.
^ "MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES APPOINTS DR. PETER WYSE JACKSON As SUCCESSOR TO GARDEN PRESIDENT DR. PETER H. RAVEN" (PDF). Mobot.org. Retrieved Dec 7, 2014.
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^ Commentary accompanying the DVD release of the film Silent Running.
^ "Conservation in Action: the EarthWays Centre". Missouribotanicalgarden.org. Archived from the original on April 26, 2013. Retrieved April 23, 2013.
^ "Shaw Nature Reserve". Shawnature.org. Retrieved April 23, 2013.
^ "Discovery News: World's Largest Plants Database Assembled". News.discovery.com. Dec 29, 2010. Archived from the original on July 13, 2012. Retrieved April 23, 2013.
^ CBC: U.s.a., British scientists depict up comprehensive list of world's known country plants^{[ dead link ]}
^ Jost, Ashley. "Washington U., St. Louis Zoo and Missouri Botanical Garden team upward to tackle conservation". stltoday.com . Retrieved August 2, 2019. ^{[ verification needed ]}
^ "Our Mission". Living Earth Collaborative. September 1, 2017. Retrieved August two, 2019. ^{[ verification needed ]}
^ Press release Missouri Botanical Garden receives $3 million gift from Monsanto Company toward development of a World Flora Online. Missouri Botanical Garden, June 5, 2012
^ No official announcements or press, but the divergence can be seen on the Garden's website before and later Monsanto acquisition past Bayer (departure in name in caption for 2nd photo); earlier: https://spider web.archive.org/web/20130822224927/https://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/establish-science/constitute-scientific discipline/resources/herbarium.aspx , after: https://web.archive.org/web/20210604074747/https://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/plant-science/found-scientific discipline/resources/herbarium.aspx .

External links [edit]

Official website
Missouri Botanical Garden's channel on YouTube
Climatron history and compages
The Japanese Garden
Edifice big: Databank: Climatron (pbs.org)
Tower Grove Park
Botanicus, Digital library

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missouri_Botanical_Garden