Carol Grove chronicles Englishman Henry Shaw's remarkable story, from
his early love of plants to his rising social conscience and his
determined quest to create a place of unsurpassed beauty and distinction
that would educate and thereby improve Americans. Beautifully
illustrated with contemporary and historical photographs, this volume
offers an insightful cultural history of Shaw's landscapes at the
Missouri Botanical Garden and Tower Grove Park, among the most important
examples of the gardenesque in America.