from a press release : "The sixth annual... Orchid Show... The New York Botanical Garden... February 23. Running for six weeks...
The Enid A. Haupt Conservatory is the central site for the Botanical Garden's... orchid... The Orchid Show's location in America's largest Victorian-style glasshouse... the Botanical Garden's collection of more than 8,000... Under the 90-foot dome of the Palms of the Americas Gallery... the reflecting pool will feature a spiral planter filled with... orchids. In the Lowland Tropical Rain Forest Gallery, exotic trees arch overhead to invite discovery of orchids... clinging to branches and twining around ...trunks... fragrant pansy orchids, ... corsage orchids, and perchance a butterfly orchid, said to be the flower greatly responsible for the "orchid- mania" that took hold of 19th-century England. During The Orchid Show, the terrarium in the Conservatory's Upland Tropical Rain Forest Gallery will showcase... miniature orchids... Each year... new design element... For 2008,... to Singapore. ... the... island nation,... one of the... orchid centers of the world... Vanda and Dendrobium... are grown in great quantities in Singapore. ... the Orchid Rotunda on the first floor of the Library building will be filled with Dendrobium orchids, including many specimens of this orchid genus that have been recovered by The New York Botanical Garden in its role as a Plant Rescue Center... vanilla orchids... in the ongoing exhibition on the fourth floor... On the sixth floor, large, rare folios published in the 18th and 19th centuries, which contain... orchid illustrations, will be exhibited in the Rare Book and Folio Room of the Botanical Garden's LuEsther T. Mertz Library. ... an Everett Children's Adventure Garden program... reveals to youngsters the secrets of vanilla... Program topics that change for each of the seven weekends of the exhibition... Located in the Garden's Leon Levy Visitor Center, Shop in the Garden... orchids... will be available for purchase in the Shop. The Shop will also offer orchid products for properly caring for new acquisitions and hundreds of orchid books, from ... illustrated how-to titles to the more scholarly new release from NYBG Press, Orchid Biology: Reviews and Perspectives, IX, which includes a chapter on the origins of Singapore's national flower, the well-known hybrid Vanda 'Miss Joaquim', first described in 1893. Audio tour stops in Shop in the Garden will provide answers to frequently asked orchid questions" URL : http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/080207/nyth128.html?.v=101 *************** Regards, VB _______________________________________________ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) [email protected] http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
