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The Chicago Botanic Garden has purchased one of the world’s premier collections of rare botanical books and journals.
Nov. 1, 2002
Carl August Totemeier, for many years a leading horticulturist and gardening columnist for newspapers that included the New York Times, died July 3 at a hospital in Fayetteville, Ark.
July 11, 2004
At a recent seminar in New York City, devotees from all over the United States gave status reports on their efforts to build plant conservatories to preserve or show off rare and exotic plants.
Dec. 31, 1989
DIVIDE the best of this year’s gardening books, and they fall into two basic categories: books about plants and books about how we organize plants.
Dec. 11, 2003
World & Nation
Thousands of people turned out this week for a glimpse, or better yet, a sniff of “Stinky the Corpse Flower,” a towering tropical plant that reeks of rotting flesh and whose bloom has become a citywide obsession.
Aug. 21, 2015
Out with the old and in with the new: A leftover New Year’s bromide perhaps, but for those who tend roses it is sound advice.
Jan. 3, 1992
Television
Gertrude Nielsen knows the joy of seeing things grow.
June 29, 1997
Travel & Experiences
In a city where public attractions measure monthly attendance totals in five and six digits, it is a stark contrast to find one that in brisk times will peak at about 400.
May 28, 1993
The islophile expecting a lush landscape is often surprised by Santa Catalina Island’s back country.
Aug. 15, 1987
It’s been nearly 115 years since a stand of stately tulip trees was planted to grace the lovely walkway and lawns leading to the New York Botanical Garden’s Mertz Library in the Bronx.
Sept. 19, 2017