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Tuesday, June 23, 2009

150 year old Missouri Botanical Garden is now one of world's gardens

By Cheryl Wittenauer
The Associated Press

Northwest artist Dale Chihuly's "Walla Wallas" float outside the Climatron at the Missouri Botanical Garden, in St. Louis. The floats, part of a permanent collection, are displayed seasonally.

If You Go
Missouri Botanical Garden: 800-642-8842 or www.mobot.org/
Admission is $8 for adults, free for children 12 and under.

Henry Shaw, only 18, was selling cutlery out of a rented room in St. Louis when a chance, half-day journey out of town on horseback one spring day in 1819 led him to his destiny — the prairie that would become his now-world-famous garden.

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