Around the Arboretum 
Free Parking at NYBG 
Spring Plant Show 
Members of the Friends of the Cary 
Arboretum are entitled to free parking at 
the New York Botanical Garden during the 
months of March and April to attend the 
Garden’s Spring Plant Show. Parking 
normally costs $2.00. 
The display at the plant show will feature 
100,000 flowers. It opens on March 10th 
in the brilliantly restored “Crystal Palace,” 
the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory, which 
houses eleven connecting glass galleries 
covering one acre. 
The Spring show is the major horal event 
in New York, and features such seasonal 
plants as anemones, primroses and flowering 
bulbs, in addition to a profusion of orchids 
in unusual varieties. 
their two-year course also attended the 
meetings; Bonnie Billet, Karen Asherman 
and Debbie Klugman. 
Plant Science Building Featured by AP 
The nationally distributed Associated Press 
Newsfeature Service, which goes to more 
than 1200 newspapers that are members of 
the nation’s leading wire news service, 
carried a major article in January about the 
environmental features of the Plant Science 
Building. Public Affairs Director George 
Bookman has been receiving clippings of 
the story from dozens of newspapers in 
every section of the United States. Author 
of the article is Earl Aronson, a resident of 
Hudson, N.Y., who writes a weekly 
gardening column for A.P. called “Weeder’s 
Guide.” 
Natural Heritage Trust Grant Awarded 
Arboretum Friends wishing to make use of 
the free parking privilege should show their 
membership card to the guard at the 
Botanical Garden gate. The Conservatory 
is open Tuesdays through Sundays, Iff; 00 
AM to 4:00 PM. Admission is $1.50 for 
adults, 75 cents for children and senior 
citizens. 
AABGA Conference Held in Sturbridge 
Horticulturist Robert Hebb, the newly- 
appointed “convenor” for the Northeastern 
section of the American Association of 
Botanical Gardens and Arboreta, recently 
escorted several staff members to Sturbridge, 
Massachusetts, for a conference on 
“Cultivars in the Off-Season.” 
The Cary Arboretum has been awarded a 
grant of. $9, 000 from the Natural Heritage 
Trust, an agency of New York State. The 
funds will be used for completion of nature 
trails on the Arboretum grounds, open 
for use by Friends of the Arboretum and 
public visitors. 
Natural Heritage Trust is a State fund 
administered jointly by the Department of 
Environmental Conservation, the Department 
of Parks and Recreation, and the State Parks 
Council. This is the second- consecutive year 
that the Arboretum has received a grant 
toward expenses from the Trust, which is 
authorized to assist zoological parks, 
botanical gardens, arboreta, and aquariums 
to create and expand their recreation and 
cultural programs and services. 
The February meeting was attended by 70 
AABGA members from the Northeastern 
states. Discussions and lectures during the 
two-day conference focused on such winter 
horticulture projects as public displays, 
outdoor winter collections, and volunteer 
programs. 
In addition to Mr. Hebb, the Cary Arboretum 
was represented by Dr. and Mrs. Willard W. 
Payne; Horticulturist Carol Young; Director 
of Education Peter Dykeman; and Alex 
Pearl and Paul Mihan of the Greenhouse 
staff. Three NYBG Horticulture Students 
now studying at the Arboretum as part of 
Vietnamese Artist to Exhibit 
Through April 1 
Impressionist paintings by Triminh, a^ 
Vietnamese Artist, will remain on exhibit 
through April 1 at the Cary Arboretum’s 
Gifford House Education and Visitor 
Center and The Plant Science Building on 
the Sharon Turnpike. 
A native of South Vietnam, Triminh has 
exhibited in Washington, D.C., Pittsburgh, 
San Francisco, Paris, Saigon, Tokyo, India, 
and Brazil. 
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After moving to Poughkeepsie in 1975, 
Triminh began teaching art to. adults who 
“wanted to perfect their style.” On Saturday, 
April 28, he will conduct a day-long seminar 
on techniques of painting in acrylics at the 
Gifford House. 
Triminh’s paintings reflect a calm, 
impressionist-style of land and seascapes 
demonstrating a range of color, texture and 
technique. 
Gallery hours at the Gifford House are 
8:30 to 4:30 daily, and between 1 :30 and 
4:30 on weekends. Admission is free. 
Library Hours Extended 
Linda Vigars, Cary Arboretum Librarian, 
has announced that as of March first, the 
Arboretum Library will be open to the public 
each Wednesday night until 7:30 PM. Regular 
hours are 9 AM to 4 PM on weekdays. 
Anyone wishing to use the library facilities 
during unscheduled hours should call Ms. 
Vigars at 677-5343 for special library 
privileges. 
The Arboretum’s library is located in the 
solar-heated Plant Science Building on the 
Sharon Turnpike. Visitors should enter the 
building through the main (north) door, 
following the corridor straight ahead to the 
elevator halfway down the hall. The library 
is on the lower floor. 
Peekskill Tree Survey 
(continued from page 3) 
Master Plan for the Planning, Planting, and 
Maintenance t)f Trees on Public Property,” 
outlines a prospectus for establishing and 
maintaining a comprehensive urban tree 
program. It was based on a random survey 
of the trees already on the streets of 
Peekskill. Data collected during this 
inventory included tree identification, size, 
condition, utility interference, and other 
environmentally related rproblems. 
Copies are available for sale from the 
Arboretum’s Business Office at $12 each. • 
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