Jenny, Longwood Gardens is a neat place to visit. There is a story that the whole place was started because Pierre was interested in saving a grove of trees from development! How about that from a businessman!? Du Pont has done a lot of positive things regarding conservation and environmental study, in addition to general "giving back" to the public. Because of him, the state of Delaware does not have a sales tax. He seems like he would have been an interesting individual to befriend.
Steve Springer -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of JennyNYC Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 4:16 PM To: ENTSTrees Subject: [ENTS] Longwood Tulip: PA height champion ENTS, I visited Longwood Gardens outside of Philadelphia yesterday and found some great tulip trees, including one recently measured by ENTS member Scott Wade! 163.3' height. PA height champion. Nice forest, beautiful meadow...The rest was all about Fountains and a massive Conservatory designed by early 20th century biggo Pierre du Pont. Supposed to be an important botanical garden, but I just liked the trees and meadow. Fountains??? Can you get more cliche for one of these corporate Napoleons? I read he used to 'entertain' his nieces and nephews by putting secret fountain jets around the grounds and suddenly turning them on to surprise them. They were probably traumatized by Uncle Pierre... Anyway. Here's a link to what i think is the tulip tree that Scott measured. There was a beautiful maple too beside the meadow. There were so many sugar maples that I assumed this was one, but it could be a red. http://picasaweb.google.com/JennifDudley/TulipTreesAndASugarMapleLongwoo d?feat=directlink Jenny --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
