|
Scene from the Colombian Expedition, c.1923. Copy negative available. Burros packed with their boxed orchids ready to set out from a native Colombian village for a river port, from which the flowers were shipped to St. Louis.
1920 |
|
|
Scene of Colombian Expedition. Copy negative available. Collecting orchids on Andes of Bogota. George Pring, left, voluntary guide, Cyril Allen, right (later died of jungle fever.)
1920 |
|
|
Orchids. Mounted with PHO 2006-0949.
|
|
|
Greenhouse interior. Concrete walkways, new fibreglass roofing, better arrangements of benches, and improved heating and watering systems have made the care of the Garden's orchid collection not only easier, but better for the plants. Bulletin, Jan-Feb 1972
|
|
|
Nepenthes - Pitcher plants. American Orchid Society Show. Washington, D.C. 1930.
|
|
|
Missouri Botanical Garden exhibit at American Orchid Society Fourth National Show. Washington, D.C. October 16, 1930
|
|
|
Missouri Botanical Garden orchid exhibit at Fourth National Show. Washington, D.C. October 16, 1930
|
|
|
Orchid range at Arboretum under construction. Southwest corner, 1926. Gray Summit, Mo.
|
|
|
New orchid range of eight greenhouses with connecting head house. Northeast corner. Gray Summit extension. MBG Bulletin vol. 14, 1926.
|
|
|
Orchid range at Gray Summit Arboretum. One of the Cattleya houses when we had to grow orchids out of town due to smog conditions in the city. Negative available at PHO 2006-2852.
|
|
