Louise B. Belsterling Foundation of the Dallas Garden Club
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The Louise B. Belsterling Foundation generously donates funds to the McDermott Library to preserve and add new volumes to the Collection, as well as grants scholarships for research in horticulture at the graduate level.
History
The Dallas Garden Club was named a co-beneficiary of Mrs. Belsterling's estate with Texas Research Foundation after her death in 1970. As part of the bequest, the Texas Research Foundation received the Belsterlings' personal library of rare books, covering horticulture and botany, until their dissolution in 1971.
On June 9, 1971, the Dallas Garden Club established the Louise B. Belsterling Foundation and assumed the Texas Research Foundation’s Belsterling gifts. The Foundation decided to transfer ownership of the Belsterling library to the UT Board of Regents, resulting in UT Dallas founding the Louise B. Belsterling Botanical Library at the Eugene McDermott Library, where the collection has been housed since 1972.
Permission to reproduce or publish in any format the materials on this site must be obtained from the Special Collections and Archives Division, Eugene McDermott Library, The University of Texas at Dallas.
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Snow-Drop, Buca-Neve
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Dove's-Foot, Geranium
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Crocus, Carthamus Tinctorius
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Dandelion, Dent de Leon
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Cardinal Flower, Lobelia-Cardinalis
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Laurel, Laurus
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Humulus Lupulus, Common Hop
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Magnolia Glauca, Small Magnolia
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Phytolacca Decandra, Poke
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Kräuterbuch Von allerly Arzneykräutern
(2013-05-31)A collection of 16 leaves from printed herbals, four of them incunabular. (Dates range from 1485-1777). Printed contents leaf mounted (as issued) on stiff paper, followed by the leaves, the contents leaf with colored ... -
Kreutterbuch
(2013-05-31)A collection of 16 leaves from printed herbals, four of them incunabular. (Dates range from 1485-1777). Printed contents leaf mounted (as issued) on stiff paper, followed by the leaves, the contents leaf with colored ... -
De Historia Stirpium
(2013-05-31)A collection of 16 leaves from printed herbals, four of them incunabular. (Dates range from 1485-1777). Printed contents leaf mounted (as issued) on stiff paper, followed by the leaves, the contents leaf with colored ... -
Gart der Gesundheit Schöffer 1485
(2013-05-31)A collection of 16 leaves from printed herbals, four of them incunabular. (Dates range from 1485-1777). Printed contents leaf mounted (as issued) on stiff paper, followed by the leaves, the contents leaf with colored ... -
Zinna revoluta.
(2013-05-30)The book was donated by the Dallas Garden Club and the Richard Finlay Family to honor Charlotte Finlay, former President of the Louise B. Belsterling Foundation. -
Nigella nana.
(2013-05-30)The book was donated by the Dallas Garden Club and the Richard Finlay Family to honor Charlotte Finlay, former President of the Louise B. Belsterling Foundation. -
Hibiscus Africanus.
(2013-05-30)The book was donated by the Dallas Garden Club and the Richard Finlay Family to honor Charlotte Finlay, former President of the Louise B. Belsterling Foundation. -
Godetia vinosa.
(2013-05-30)The book was donated by the Dallas Garden Club and the Richard Finlay Family to honor Charlotte Finlay, former President of the Louise B. Belsterling Foundation. -
Eschscholzia californica.
(2013-05-30)The book was donated by the Dallas Garden Club and the Richard Finlay Family to honor Charlotte Finlay, former President of the Louise B. Belsterling Foundation. -
Convolvulus clongatus.
(2013-05-30)The book was donated by the Dallas Garden Club and the Richard Finlay Family to honor Charlotte Finlay, former President of the Louise B. Belsterling Foundation. -
Trifolium Agraium
(2011-04-07)One of the great names in botany, William Curtis (1746- 99), was a pharmacist, botanist and entomologist. He set up a botanical garden of British plants at Bermondsey in 1771. Two years later, he was appointed demonstrator ...
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