Packard Bioscience Co. ; PerkinElmer ; Canberra Packard Inc. ; Packard Bioscience and CCS Packard ; Ambac Industries Inc. ; Packard Instrument International S.A. (Zurich, Switzerland) ; Canberra Packard International S. A. (Zurich, Switzerland) ; Canberra Co. Search this
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Press kits containing booklets on various products ; "Packard '92 The Changing Face of Radioassay Counting" ; gamma counter ; "Test Your Gamma IQ" (1993) ; "Matrix Solid Supports" vol. 1, issue 1, Summer 1991 (a scientific newsletter published by Packard Instrument Co.) ; "Tri-Carb 2500TR" ; "Matrix 96 Direct Beta Counter" ; "Flame Oxidation Sample Oxidizer Model 307" ; "Cobra Auto-Gamma" ; "Packard '90 Packard: MAPP to Success" ; "Riastar: Simple Fast Smart" ; "Auto-Gamma 5500 Benchtop Gamma Counters" ; "Packard Pesticide Analyzer" (1967) ; "The Future of Microplate Assays is Here -- 384-well Radioscopic and Luminescence Counting!" (1996) ; SpeedQuant Molecular Biology Instant Imager electronic autoradiography system (1995) ; "Chemicals & Supplies Catalog for Liquid Scintillation and Gamma Counting" (1987) ; "Packard Today: Forty Years of Life Science Innovation" (1994) including information on Robotics in assaying ; Tri-Carb Liquid Scintillation Analyzer (1994) ; Ultima Gold LCS cocktail ; "Packard '93 Accelerating the Pace of Scientific Research Worldwide" ; autoradiography ; "The 2420 Tri-Carb Spectrometer New Simplicity and Convenience in Liquid Scintillation Counting" (1970) ; "Microvolume Radio-HPLC...Resolution Just Got Better" (1998) ; "Model 7150 Radioactive Flow Monitor Trace II" (1985) ; gas chromatography network ; "Model 830 Network Manager" (1985) ; instruments for radioactivity measurement and chromatography ; "TopCount" Microplate Scintillation and Luminescence Counters ; "Cyclone" Storage Phosphor System ; includes business cards. Founded 1949 (see "The Business of Chemistry" page 132, pubs.acs.org/supplements/chemchronicles2/pdf/131.pdf?sessid=5964.) Packard Instruments, later Packard Bioscience was a developer, manufacturer and marketer of instruments and related consumables and services and services, for use in drug discovery and other life sciences research, such as basic human disease research and biotechnology. Packard BioScience is primarily focused on the rapidly growing areas of drug screening, functional genomics and proteomics. In 2001 PerkinElmer, Inc. acquired Packard. (see http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=89380&p=irol-pressRelease&t=Regular&id=201704&).
Includes:
Trade catalog, price lists and histories
Black and white images
Color images
Physical description:
54 pieces; 1 box
Language:
English
Type of material:
Trade catalogs
Trade literature
Place:
Meriden, Connecticut, United States
Date:
1900s
Topic (Romaine term):
Biotechnology and biochemical equipment and supplies Search this
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United States of America -- Connecticut -- Hartford -- Avon
Scope and Contents:
The folder includes worksheets and a bibliography.
General:
The house, a popular Better Homes and Garden plan known as the "Maple Forest House", was built in 1997 and the first landscaping was put in that year. The two and one-fifth acre property is on a steep slope with rocky soil and surrounded by deep woods, while the garden and koi pond are close to the house with additional features further out in the lawn. The owners feel they live in the woods and must accommodate wildlife in their style of living and gardening. The lawn has not been treated with pesticides for ten or more years so in addition to grasses, ferns and mosses there are wildflowers and common weeds, including violets, white clover, dayflower, ground ivy, dandelions, smart weed, chicory, fleabane and thistle. Sunflowers and milkweed are encouraged to self-seed and provide food for birds and butterflies. Other wildlife seen on the property includes bears, foxes, chipmunks, rabbits, squirrels, coyotes, possums, skunks, bobcats, hawks, eagles, turkeys and deer that have lyme-disease ticks. The owners grow a small vegetable garden in plastic pots on one of the decks but are able to grow herbs in a raised bed next to the house. Annual flowers are grown in clay pots and hanging baskets, out of reach for digging dogs. The original koi pond was enlarged in 2015, a massive stone slab was installed as a bridge, and net screens attached to saplings and a plastic heron at the pond's edge keep predators away from the fish.
The garden owner is a former Garden Club of America club president.
Persons associated with the garden include Robert P. Powell (garden and pond design, 1997); Aquascapes of Connecticut (koi pond re-design and installation, 2015); Dan Isakson (lawn care, 2011- ); Dexter Cheney (woodlands and woodlot management, 2005- ).
Dan Isakson provided lawn care. Aquascapes of Connecticut designed the pond. Dexter Cheny managed the woodlands.
Related Materials:
The Howard Garden related holdings consist of 1 folder (24 digital images; 4 photographic prints)
Collection Restrictions:
Access to original archival materials by appointment only. Researcher must submit request for appointment in writing. Certain items may be restricted and not available to researchers. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.
Collection Rights:
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Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, The Garden Club of America collection.
Sponsor:
A project to describe images in this finding aid received Federal support from the Smithsonian Collections Care Initiative, administered by the National Collections Program.
United States of America -- Ohio -- Clermont -- Loveland
Scope and Contents:
The folder includes worksheets, photocopies of articles and other information.
General:
The four acre property known as the Robb-Montgomery House, built in 1875, has deep woodlands, hundreds of flowering trees and shrubs, thousands of spring bulbs, an English style water garden under an ornate iron gazebo that has a lion's head wall fountain feeding the stone enclosed koi pond, a stone barn with a carved entablature over the door, dry stone walls and massive flags of local limestone - with the work conceived and carried out by the current owner over the past twenty years. The gardens are most colorful in spring when dogwoods, redbuds, magnolias, rhododendrons and azaleas are in bloom, along with swaths of tulips planted annually as well as beds of naturalized daffodils. Garden areas near the house were designed in the same late Victorian style and are embellished with statuary, fountains, birdbaths and granite wishing well, some of which were salvaged from other estates. The trees, shrubs and bulbs planted on the property have been selected for continuous bloom from February through May.
Mature trees including ashes, elms, maples, oaks and walnuts provide an open canopy over the contoured mixed borders and understory flowering trees, which include magnolias, Japanese maples, buckeyes, dawn redwoods, dove trees, franklin trees and two dwarf peach trees on the terrace. A mature magnolia found on the property motivated the purchase and restoration of the house and grounds. Deer control has been essential since the formal gardens lead to woodlands and ravines. Pesticides are not used on this property and a recent infestation of emerald ash borer will be managed by removing the ash trees.
Persons associated with the garden include: David T. Robb and Caroline Lockwood Robb, James W. and Caroline Robb Montgomery (former owners, 1875-1935); Cox family (former owners, 1935-1954); Minderman family (former owners, 1954-1960); Hickman family (former owners, 1960-1965); Fein family (former owners, 1965-1985); Frohman family (former owners, 1985-1993).
Related Materials:
Dale Ead's Loveland, Ohio Garden related holdings consist of 1 folder (22 digital images)
Collection Restrictions:
Access to original archival materials by appointment only. Researcher must submit request for appointment in writing. Certain items may be restricted and not available to researchers. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.
Collection Rights:
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Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, The Garden Club of America collection.
Sponsor:
A project to describe images in this finding aid received Federal support from the Smithsonian Collections Care Initiative, administered by the National Collections Program.
United States of America -- Pennsylvania -- Chester County -- Downingtown
Scope and Contents:
The folder includes a worksheet, site plans, a detailed narrative description of the garden, a plant list, and clippings and photocopies of articles about the garden and its designer.
General:
Established in 1991, this one and an eighth-acre garden reflects the ambience of the 1790 William Penn yeoman's house located on the site. Autonomous gardens weave together through unique plant combinations that form a yearlong drama of varying color, intensity, and emotion. Plants can be found everywhere on the site, from flowers in the gravel of the drive to bulbs in the footpaths. A hillside features hellebores in a fantasy woodland, while a ruin/trough garden is located on the former site of an above-ground pool. Foliage provides the backbone to the garden's overall design, while containers are changed each season to create striking new combinations. Although there is a traditional four-square fenced garden plot surrounded by perennials, the overall effect is not focused on strict historic restoration. Loose drifts of plant material always have something else in them, and many plants are placed to give a self-seeded appearance. Color and form based on texture are repeated and shapes are placed carefully, being repeated to achieve unity. Plant material is appropriate for limited water resources, while fertilizer and pesticide use is curtailed in order to encourage birds and butterflies. Although there are many rare individual species and varieties in this garden the overall effect is one of harmonious, ebullient, and naturalistic design.
Persons associated with the property include: the Guie family (former owners, 19th century).
Related Materials:
Culp Garden related holdings consist of 1 folder (12 35 mm. slides)
Collection Restrictions:
Access to original archival materials by appointment only. Researcher must submit request for appointment in writing. Certain items may be restricted and not available to researchers. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.
Collection Rights:
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Topic:
Gardens -- Pennsylvania -- Downingtown Search this
Collection Citation:
Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, The Garden Club of America collection.
Sponsor:
A project to describe images in this finding aid received Federal support from the Smithsonian Collections Care Initiative, administered by the National Collections Program.
United States of America -- Pennsylvania -- Allegheny County -- Pittsburgh
Scope and Contents:
1 folder and 23 digital images. The folder includes worksheets, historical and biographical information, and images.
General:
The 4.55 acre property with fields on rolling hills and surrounding woodlands was part of a plat given as remuneration to a Revolutionary War veteran in 1786. Later settlers built a small farmhouse circa 1897 and established prosperous orchards of apple, pear and plum trees; some of those trees still survive. The first gardens planted by the current owners about 50 years ago were flower and herb gardens around the farmhouse which is sited near the front of the property, and has since been renovated and enlarged. Since a hill rose directly behind the house it was carved out and supported with local stone to open up space for a large bluestone patio with an outdoor fireplace that is used year round. A dedicated vegetable garden is uphill from the house in the sunniest original field and orchard. A stone-bordered recirculating pond was added and a woodland garden planted. Old farm gates separate the fields from the gardens hidden behind the farmhouse. Adirondack chairs are placed in the fields for resting and bird watching. Both woodlands and fields provide habitat for wildlife, songbirds, butterflies and beneficial pollinators, and herbicides and pesticides are never used. Due to succession planting there is color and texture throughout the year.
Upon entering the property juniper, hemlock, white pine, rhododendron, boxwood and Allegheny viburnum line the driveway. Spring bulbs and blooms include columbine, daffodils and lungwort, followed in summer by St. John's-wort, clematis and peonies, then roses and verbena followed by autumn clematis on the rock retaining wall with wisteria growing over the garage entrance. A 75-year-old hedge comprised of lilac, privet and mock orange shields the property from the road. A gate opens to a field and woodlands of river birch, catalpa, wild cherry, tulip poplar and cucumber magnolia, with spring ephemerals, wildflowers and flame azaleas bordering the paths. Connecting the highs and lows of the fields and gardens is the fish pond, also home to frogs and water plants including lilies that bloom all summer. Plum Hill is known for its collection of herbs which grow amongst all the flowering perennials, vines, self-sowing annuals and shrubs, and for the owners' dedication to maintaining a sustainable environment for plants and animals.
Persons associated with the garden include Vincent M. Pelosi (land grant owner, 1786- ); Robert McPhilamy and family (former owners, 1831- ); Agnes and William Milligan (former owners, 1844- ); William Brown and family (former owners, 1848- ); Emma and John Bonshire (former owners, 1903- ); Laura and Thomas A. Robinson and family (former owners, 1928- ); D. Hageman (former owner, 1960); Phyllis and William Wilmot (former owners, 1962-1968); Anthony J. Stillson (1938-2016) (architect, 1978, 2012); Edward Anderson Nursery (horticulturist, landscaper, 1970-1998); Friday's Horticultural Landscaping (horticulturist, designer, landscape,(2008-2012); Lindsay Bond Totten (horticulturist, designer, 2013); Marion G. Alig (landscape architect, 2013); Eichenlau1968, 2009-2010, (landscaper, 2013-2017); Ann Mallory (sculptor, 2015).
Collection Restrictions:
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Collection Rights:
Archives of American Gardens encourages the use of its archival materials for non-commercial, educational and personal use under the fair use provision of U.S. copyright law. Use or copyright restrictions may exist. It is incumbent upon the researcher to ascertain copyright status and assume responsibility for usage. All requests for duplication and use must be submitted in writing and approved by Archives of American Gardens. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.
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Sponsor:
A project to describe images in this finding aid received Federal support from the Smithsonian Collections Care Initiative, administered by the National Collections Program.
United States of America -- New York -- Westchester -- Rye
Scope and Contents:
The folder includes worksheets and photocopies of articles.
General:
Located on the banks of the tidal Blind Brook estuary, lined with salt marshes, Bird Homestead was the home of Henry Bird (1869-1959), a prominent entomologist and president of the New York Entomological Society who specialized in the study of moths. The landscape and garden was of a modest size and represents a unique combination of a small self-sufficient farm with ornamental perennial beds, shrubs, and roses plus fruit trees that combined both beauty and utility, along with specific plants grown for entomological research. The Greek revival style house, outbuildings, picket fence and stonewall all date to the 19th century, a rarity on Westchester County's Long Island Sound Shore.
The garden features date primarily from the 1920s and 1940s, with additions in 2012 for educational purposes. The Bouton-Bird Erikson family owned the property for five generations from 1852-2009. The non-profit Bird Homestead Preservatio trust now operates the property as a historic, environmental, and educational site.
The Greek revival style house built in the 19th century, white oak trees shading the house, the remains of earlier gardens, and outbuildings including a barn, a workshop and chicken coop. The small family farm was self-sufficient until well into the 20th century, raising chickens and growing fruits and vegetables. The property is being restored by the Bird Homestead Preservation Trust and is used to teach children about the natural environment including organic gardening in four raised beds on the site of an earlier large cold frame. A cedar arbor for grape vines was recently hoisted back to stand vertically in the garden after many years of leaning at a severe angle. Surviving shrubs near the house include lilac, wisteria, roses, azalea, mock orange and beautybushes, and a bed of ferns is undisturbed by neglect for many years.
Henry Bird encouraged the use of beneficial insects in the garden rather than spraying pesticides and maintained a small garden area with plants that would attract the insects he wanted to study. Bird also was a proponent of native plants and established a large natives garden at 'Bye-Wood' on the Mr. and Mrs. William J. Knapp estate, which led him to write "A Proposed Type of American Garden" with Louise Allen Knapp, published in 1929 in ASLA's "Landscape Architecture" journal. Daughter Alice Bird Erikson (1903-1993) was an artist and trained as a landscape architect at the Lowthorpe School of Landscape Architecture. In 1942 she illustrated Trees of the Countryside (Alfred A. Knopf) by Margaret McKenny, who had been a classmate.
Persons associated with the garden include Henry Bird (former owner, 1959), Alice Bird Erikson (former owner and landscape architect, 1903-1994); City of Rye, New York (2009- ).
Related Materials:
Bird Homestead related holdings consist of 1 folder (24 digital images)
Collection Restrictions:
Access to original archival materials by appointment only. Researcher must submit request for appointment in writing. Certain items may be restricted and not available to researchers. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.
Collection Rights:
Archives of American Gardens encourages the use of its archival materials for non-commercial, educational and personal use under the fair use provision of U.S. copyright law. Use or copyright restrictions may exist. It is incumbent upon the researcher to ascertain copyright status and assume responsibility for usage. All requests for duplication and use must be submitted in writing and approved by Archives of American Gardens. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.
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Sponsor:
A project to describe images in this finding aid received Federal support from the Smithsonian Collections Care Initiative, administered by the National Collections Program.
United States of America -- Massachusetts -- Norfolk -- Cohasset
Scope and Contents:
The folder includes worksheets and a planting list.
General:
Cedar Ledges is a historic property of nearly three acres that features trees reminiscent of the years the current owners spent in the Foreign Service, and more recently Native American trees, shrubs and wildflowers. The property has been owned by members of just two families since the 1730's, and has descended in the present owner's family since the 1920s. Native granite ledges form a rock garden with a waterfall that trickles into a lily pond, with a clump of birch trees, mature cedar trees, and Japanese maples along with ferns, azaleas and spring bulbs. A formal rectangular garden has been switched from roses to dwarf fruit trees, bordered by boxwood hedges, espaliered apple trees, raspberries and blackberries trained to arches.
Nearby grove of Eastern red cedars is under planted with flowering shrubs, spring bulbs and perennials and edged with elderberries and gooseberries. A vegetable and herb garden in raised beds also serves as a nursery for young fruit trees. A woodland path features trees and shrubs with colorful bark that add interest in the winter, including red and yellow twig dogwoods. A garden devoted to birds and memories features tall pines, a lower story of trees that fruit, flowering ground covers and an old twisted juniper. A hundred-foot long perennial border with old-fashioned flowers and flowering shrubs adds color. A small stream is decorated with wildflowers, dogwood, crabapple and sweet gum trees. Near the road a spring garden includes bulbs and ferns, lilacs along a granite ledge and wisteria.
The seaside garden at Cedar Ledges has been cited by the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, with plants in the lower meadow including hibiscus, rugosa roses, bayberry, broom and tamarisks that thrive in the increasing salinity of the soil caused by more frequent high tide flooding. The owners stopped using pesticides and chemical fertilizers in the 1960s, convinced by the research of Rachel Carson, and practice organic gardening methods including composting, mulching with beach seaweed, companion planting, and introducing beneficial insects. Their gardens are havens for birds, butterflies, bees and small mammals with thickets for shelter and many varieties of berries for food. Birds that nest on the property include great-horned owls, Baltimore orioles and hummingbirds.
Persons associated with the garden include: William Bailey (former owner, c. 1732-c.1760); William Whittington and Lothrop family (former owner, 1926-1936); Charles Higginson (former owner, 1926-1936); Rebekah Higginson and Edwin J. Cohn (former owners, 1926-1956); Joseph Barrow (gardener, 1932-1965); Samuel Esposito (gardener, 1965-1985); Cecil Wylde (garden designer, 1975); Gary Barrow (arborist, 1985-present).
Newspaper articles and photographs printed in the Boston Herald, Boston Globe, and Washington Post.
Related Materials:
Cedar Ledges related holdings consist of 1 folder (32 digital images)
Collection Restrictions:
Access to original archival materials by appointment only. Researcher must submit request for appointment in writing. Certain items may be restricted and not available to researchers. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.
Collection Rights:
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Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, The Garden Club of America collection.
Sponsor:
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Steven & Susan Bradley Garden (Lookout Mountain, Georgia)
United States of America -- Georgia -- Dade County -- Lookout Mountain
Scope and Contents:
The folder includes worksheets, photocopies of articles, and garden tour guides.
General:
Steven and Susan Bradley worked for nearly thirty years to transform six of their thirty-three acre property into a coherent garden that accommodates a steep terrain, displays unusual and colorful plants, and is seamless with the natural surroundings including distant views of the Smoky Mountains. During the early years of their ownership the woodlands needed to be cleared of fallen limbs and dead trees, including many dogwood trees that had succumbed to anthracnose blight. The forest floor was opened up to more light, allowing wild flowers and native pinxter to thrive, and the Bradleys added naturalized beds of spring bulbs. Their sustainable practices of using cow dung and leaf mold as fertilizers and severely limiting the use of herbicides and pesticides has encouraged birds, salamanders and beneficial insects onto the property. Walkways wide enough for two people were installed to make the terrain passable, with plantings of shrubs alongside blocking steep drops that might be dangerous. A severely eroded slope next to the house was improved by channeling and containing the overflow of water from a neighbor's property and installing water-loving plants nearby. There are mature oak, hemlock, buckeye and pine trees as well as native mountain laurel, azaleas and rhododendron, oak leaf hydrangea and viburnum planted throughout the property, the dogwood have reappeared, and a stand of Japanese maples the Bradleys planted reminded them of a previous residence in Japan.
An underground water system of nearly two miles was installed and electric and telephone wires were run underground. Boulders were dug out of planting beds. Perennials including black-eyed Susan and phlox were allowed to self-sow and spread to ground that had been improved with composts, and Siberian iris have been divided and replanted to fill a steep bank next to the house that was dangerous to mow when planted in grass. The combination of native, common and unusual plants provides bloom for nine months of the year. One bed holds Exbury azaleas, species Rhododendron bought in Steven Bradley's native Washington state, and an Alabama snow wreath that in 2009 was awarded the Catherine Beattle medal for excellence in horticulture by the Garden Club of Lookout Mountain.
All the land in the area was inhabited by the Cherokee Nation prior to their displacement in 1838. The vacant land was then auctioned to the surviving widows and orphans of soldiers who fought in the War of 1812, and the property the Bradley's owned and gardened was passed down through one family before they purchased it.
This garden has been featured in many garden tours. Proceeds from tours have supported the work of The Garden Conservancy and the Chattanooga Area Food Bank.
Persons associated with the garden include Ashley and Ruth Purse (former owners, 1948-1960); Robert and Helen Davenport (former owners, 1960-1980); Steven and Susan Bradley (former owners, 1980-2009); Patricia Lea (garden designer, 1985-2009)
Related Materials:
Steven & Susan Bradley Garden related holdings consist of 1 folder (26 digital images)
Collection Restrictions:
Access to original archival materials by appointment only. Researcher must submit request for appointment in writing. Certain items may be restricted and not available to researchers. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.
Collection Rights:
Archives of American Gardens encourages the use of its archival materials for non-commercial, educational and personal use under the fair use provision of U.S. copyright law. Use or copyright restrictions may exist. It is incumbent upon the researcher to ascertain copyright status and assume responsibility for usage. All requests for duplication and use must be submitted in writing and approved by Archives of American Gardens. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.
Topic:
Gardens -- Georgia -- Lookout Mountain Search this
Collection Citation:
Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, The Garden Club of America collection.
Sponsor:
A project to describe images in this finding aid received Federal support from the Smithsonian Collections Care Initiative, administered by the National Collections Program.
United States of America -- California -- Los Angeles -- Los Angeles
Scope and Contents:
The folder includes worksheets and photo copies of articles.
General:
Located on 1/4 of an acre, the first Bennett garden in Los Angeles, designed in 1994-95, reflected the owner's Midwestern roots and love of English cottage gardens, with picket fences and lots of colorful flowers. In 2003, that garden was replaced with one that would be more appropriate to the Mediterranean climate of southern California. It included a terrace with a wisteria-crowned pergola and an outdoor fireplace for outdoor living. The Bennett Garden featured a limited palette, mostly shades of green, yellow and white, with contrasting textures. The lawn was reduced and perennials and bulbs spilled over the stone walkways and planted containers. Non-fruiting olive trees with soft green leaves gave height to the garden and an olive hedge disguised the vegetable and cutting garden that was planted behind the house in two wedge-shaped beds. A rectangular dark reflecting pool with steps forming a bridge was installed and filled with mosquito fish for insect and algae control. Fig trees were planted in front of a separate garden room and trained to grow together to provide shade for the outbuilding during the hot summer months and let in light in the winter, a passive solar design. This garden was maintained organically without pesticides or fertilizer.
The garden also features includes furniture purchased in England.
Persons associated with the garden include Robert Fletcher (landscape architect, 1987-1988); M. Brian Tichenor (landscape designer, 1988); Patricia Brenner (landscape architect, 1990); Judy Horton (landscape designer, 2003).
Related Materials:
Bennett Garden related holdings consist of 1 folder (16 digital images)
Collection Restrictions:
Access to original archival materials by appointment only. Researcher must submit request for appointment in writing. Certain items may be restricted and not available to researchers. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.
Collection Rights:
Archives of American Gardens encourages the use of its archival materials for non-commercial, educational and personal use under the fair use provision of U.S. copyright law. Use or copyright restrictions may exist. It is incumbent upon the researcher to ascertain copyright status and assume responsibility for usage. All requests for duplication and use must be submitted in writing and approved by Archives of American Gardens. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.
Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, The Garden Club of America collection.
Sponsor:
A project to describe images in this finding aid received Federal support from the Smithsonian Collections Care Initiative, administered by the National Collections Program.
