Ed, Jenny

The accession number is a number assigned to a plant when it is
originally purchased or propagated in the nursery.  The number stays
with the plant until removal/death.  It identifies the tree as an
individual and allows us to map it and track any care or issues it has
had through a system called BGbase and BG map.  Until a few years ago
they were only accessed by species, but now they all have individual
identifiers.  Trees too old to be accessed properly start with "L".
Starting in the 40's-50's start with the date they were aquired.  For
instance a tree labeled L-0388-DDD would be a tulip poplar that was
accessed after D and DD were assigned.  Where as a 1954-0456 M  would
be a tree originally purchased in 1954 and later planted out.  Some
trees spens many years in the nursery before they come into the
garden.

Scott

On Jul 10, 7:47 am, JennyNYC <[email protected]> wrote:
> Scott,
>
> Yes, it was the tree in front of the sign! I hadn't been using the
> cell phone info guide, but I happened to do it for that one.  I'm so
> glad I stopped by that little guy. There were some other little ones,
> but that one was my favorite.
>
> Ed, Scott can probably answer this better, but the accession number is
> an id # given to every plant planted in the garden. The numbers are on
> the metal tags you see on trees. They are all in a database and
> contain the info about when it was acquired, when planted, and maybe
> where? I don't know if the number indicates what group of plants it
> belongs to. I'll ask.
>
> Jenny
>
> On Jul 9, 2:00 pm, "Edward Frank" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Scott,
>
> > What is an accession list?
>
> > Ed- Hide quoted text -
>
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