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New greenhouses additions built in 1897; the additions were part of the Main Conservatory built in 1868.
1897 |
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Date palm in Parterre in 1890's.
1890 |
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Main Conservatory with tent set up in front. Ladies strolling along the path. View is to the north. 5x7 in. black and white print. PRINT AVAILABLE -- SEE PHO 1983-0346.
1906 |
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Main Conservatory (1868-1916) greenhouse-Palm house group. Unidentified gardener.
1888 |
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Palm House interior view of cycads looking north from center of house. PRINT AVAILABLE -- PHO 1982-0068 PHO 2006-3033.
1906 |
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Original Main Gate to the Garden located on Tower Grove Avenue; replaced in 1920. Visitors standing at lily pond.
1907 |
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Orchid display in wing of 1868 greenhouse.
1913 |
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Shipment of live cycad plants from Queensland, Australia to St. Louis packed in Wardian case boxes at the Missouri Botanical Garden in 1913.
1913 |
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Newly finished lily pools. The new pools were lined up with Flora Ave. which had been redone as it exists today. The original Main Gate is visible in the background and is lined up with the location of the old Flora Blvd.
1917 |
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Main Garden Lily Pools with concrete construction in the fall of 1917. Newly constructed Palm House is in the background.
1917 |
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